End seat holder with table

Abstract

To provide an end sitting position holder with a table, making it possible, when a person requiring care takes a posture of sitting on a bed or the like, so-called, an end sitting position posture, for a single helper to handle the holder even in a care site where a few helpers exist such as a site where old people provide care for old people and to easily obtain an end sitting position posture that is optimum for misswallowing prediction, considering many situations in recent years in which a care site is in short of labor or needs to rely on old people providing care for old people where it is important for persons to be cared to have a conversation and take a meal at a sitting posture as much as possible because a bedridden posture is insalubrious for the persons to be cared.SOLUTION: There are provided: an end sitting holder that includes a seat with no seating surface, armrests, and a backrest that are made from extremely lightweight material and is formed so as to be thick and in a planar inverted U-shape; and a table that is also made from extremely lightweight material and is in a planar U-shape, the table provided on top surfaces of the armrests of the end sitting holder. Because they are formed of the lightweight material, even a single helper can handle them with a little physical burden and easily. As a result, a sitting position frequency of a person to be cared is also increased.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to a sitting support device with a table, which comprises a sitting support device for holding a care recipient in a sitting position and a table or the like located above it.

Background Art

[0002] There have been reports on information programs that when the elderly are bedridden for two weeks, they will lose muscle mass equivalent to that of seven years. Muscle loss due to a bedridden life can be said to be the gateway to disuse syndrome for the elderly. If disuse syndrome progresses, it may become impossible for them to live without caregivers.

[0003] Generally, it is rare for there to be multiple caregivers for one care recipient. In fact, in hospitals, welfare facilities, etc., meal assistance and the like are provided on a one-on-one basis. Home care in Japan, which is called the aging and low-birthrate society, is elderly care, which is also one-on-one care. When a single caregiver wants an unsteady person who cannot sit independently to sit using a sitting support device on the bed, the caregiver supports the care recipient's body with one hand while using the other hand to move the sitting support device around and set it up, and then maintains the sitting position. However, generally, existing sitting support devices are too heavy to be held with one hand. In the first place, under the condition that the caregiver supports the care recipient, the range of motion of the other hand is naturally narrow and limited, and even changing into an upper garment such as a cardigan requires a great deal of labor. There are significant difficulties in handling a generally heavy and large sitting support device with one hand (see, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2).

[0004] Among existing sitting support devices, there are those with legs equipped with casters and are used by being slid under the bed. However, among recently seen types of beds that can have an ultra-low floor height for the purpose of preventing falling accidents, there are some in which the gap between the bed frame and the floor surface is so narrow that even a single finger cannot fit in, and in some cases, the legs of the sitting support device cannot be inserted at all (see, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2).

[0005] In the type of patent gazette of St. Luke's International University in Patent Document 3, since the sitting position maintainer itself is fixed to the side rail attached to the end of the bed, a side rail is required. First, when trying to make a person lying in bed sit up, the lower body, especially the feet, are likely to hit the side rail at the foot of the bed and must be removed once. It is difficult to attach and remove the side rail (usually made of iron) while supporting a wobbly person. On the other hand, in the invention of the present application, since a side rail is not required to be fixed on the bed, the side rail that becomes an obstacle when getting up can be removed in advance without any problem.

[0006] In the guidelines for preventing low back pain in the workplace established by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan, the weight of a heavy object that can be handled by one person is set at 40% or less of the body weight. According to a certain research result on the lumbar burden of the young group and the elderly group, although the weight of the heavy object used was 5 kg, which was much lighter than these standards, in the elderly group, a lumbar burden 1.5 times the load tolerance value of the lumbar intervertebral disc occurred, so the risk of low back pain was considered. Therefore, the weight that can be said to be within the load tolerance value of the lumbar intervertebral disc for the elderly, that is, the weight with a low risk of low back pain, is considered to be 5 kg / 1.5 = 3.3 kg or less (see Non-Patent Document 1).

[0007] Raising the head of the bed is also a pseudo-sitting position, and if it lasts for a long time, there are problems such as the back muscles stretching out, the reticular formation of the brainstem becoming oblique, and insufficient arousal of the brain, which induces aspiration.

Prior Art Documents

Patent Documents

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Patent Document 1

Patent Document 2

Patent Document 3

Non-Patent Document 1

Summary of the Invention

Problems to be Solved by the Invention

[0009] Existing methods for making a person sit seem to focus on the perspective at the time of completing the sitting position, such as whether the backrest is appropriate and the table position is appropriate when the person being assisted is seated. In the first place, all seating aids seem the same when looking at the state of the person being assisted sitting. That is, statically they are all the same, but dynamically, that is, the magnitude of the burden during the process of making the person sit is another issue. That is, in the process of making a person sit up from a lying state, while supporting the wobbly person being assisted, it is an issue how easily and safely the caregiver can handle the end-seat holding device with the remaining hand, and how small the physical burden on both the caregiver and the person being assisted can be.

[0010] The present invention aims to solve the problems existing in such conventional configurations, and provides an end-seat holding device with a table that can be handled even by elderly caregivers with weak muscle strength, and that enables easy and frequent seating care not only in geriatric care but also in nursing and caregiving sites with a shortage of staff.

Means for Solving the Problems

[0011] In the present invention, in order to solve the above problems, it is composed of an end-seat holding device made of an extremely lightweight material and formed in a thick planar inverted U shape, and a table made of a similarly extremely lightweight material and formed in a thin planar U shape.

[0012] There are support pins on both sides of the front part of the table that abut against the front surface of the armrest part of the end-seat holding device, and it has a belt for detachably fixing the armrest part and the table.

[0013] In the present invention, the table is a thin plate-shaped planar U-shape composed of a front portion and left and right protruding portions, has support legs extending downward from the inner sides of the rear portions of the left and right protruding portions, and the support legs have anchor plates extending outward to the left and right at their lower front ends.

[0014] In the present invention, the sitting support device does not have a structure such as legs with casters.

[0015] In the present invention, the sitting support device has a structure that can be fixed without relying on side rails.

[0016] In the present invention, it is characterized in that the total weight is extremely light, 3.3 kg or less.

Effects of the Invention

[0017] In the present invention, one caregiver seats the care recipient in a sitting position, supports the care recipient with one hand, and with the other hand, sets the sitting support device formed in a planar inverted U-shape, and installs and uses the table formed in a planar U-shape at an appropriate position on the upper surface of the armrest portion of the sitting support device.

[0018] Even in a situation where the caregiver has to support a wobbly care recipient, it has the effects of being lightweight and easy to handle, making caregiving easier for the caregiver, and enabling caregiving with a minimum number of people, one-on-one.

[0019] For the care recipient, it has the effect of enabling frequent sitting, which promotes health.

[0020] In the present invention, support pins that abut against the front surfaces of the armrest portions of the sitting support device on both sides of the front portion of the table, the armrest portions, and the belt that detachably fixes the table prevent the front end of the table from dropping forward due to the weight of an object placed on the table, and have the effect of stabilizing it.

[0021] In the present invention, the table provided with support legs having anchor plates prevents the front end of the table from dropping forward due to the weight of an object placed on the table, and has the effect of stabilizing it.

[0022] In the present invention, since it does not have a structure such as a leg with a caster, it can be used regardless of the gap between the floor surface under the bed and the bed. This makes it possible to provide it to those who need it when a seat is required, without being restricted by the bed used by the care recipient.

[0023] Generally, when raising a care recipient to a sitting position, if there is a side rail on the foot side, it will interfere with the care recipient's feet and become an obstacle. In the present invention, since the side rail is removed for use, there is an effect that it can be used without stress for both the caregiver and the care recipient.

[0024] In the present invention, the total weight of the sitting support with a table is suppressed to 3.3 kg or less. This is considered a weight that does not impose a high load on the waist even for elderly caregivers with weak muscle strength, and it is expected to support geriatric care, where it is said that 59.7% of those aged 65 and above (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's 2019 National Living Conditions Survey in 2019).

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Modes for Carrying Out the Invention

[0025] The end - sitting support device 1 is formed in a thick, planar inverted U - shape. The material is a hollow body made of resin, metal, or a foam, preferably made of styrofoam, which is lightweight, reduces the risk of back pain for the caregiver, and enables the caregiver to frequently assist in sitting positions. The upper and lower surfaces of the end - sitting support device 1 are flat. 1a is the armrest part, and 1b is the backrest part. The inverted U - shaped notch part 1c is a seat part without a seat surface. Concavo - convex tapes 1d hang down from the front surfaces of both armrest parts 1a and are attached and fixed to the mating concavo - convex tape 1e pre - attached to the bed frame side. (Fig. 1)

[0026] On the rear side of the backrest part 1b of the end - sitting support device 1, there is a grip part 1f. (Fig. 2) After the person to be assisted takes an end - sitting posture on the bed, for safety, the caregiver supports the person to be assisted with one hand, then holds the grip part 1f with one hand, turns it from the back side of the person to be assisted and sets it, and attaches the concavo - convex tape 1d on the front surface of the hanging both armrest parts to the mating concavo - convex tape 1e on the bed frame side for use.

[0027] Next, the table 2 formed in a planar U - shape is installed on the upper surface so as to come in front of the person to be assisted sitting on the end - sitting seat. The left - and - right protruding parts 22c of the table 2 pass through the belts 2a wound around the both armrest parts 1a, and support pins 2b that abut against the front surfaces of the armrest parts of the end - sitting support device 1 are inserted from above on both sides of the front part of the table 2 to ensure the fixation of the table. (Figs. 4 and 5)

[0028] Alternatively, in the table 22, when it has support legs 22d that go downward from the inner sides of the rear parts of the left - and - right protruding parts 22c, and the support legs 22d have anchor plates 22e that go outward to the left and right at the lower front ends, it can also be installed by inserting it horizontally from in front of the person to be assisted sitting on the end - sitting seat. (Figs. 6 and 7)

Explanation of reference numerals

[0029] 1 End - sitting support device 1a Armrest part 1b Backrest part 1c Seat part 1d Concavo - convex tape 1e Concave-convex tape 1f Grip part 2 Table 2a Belt 2b Support pin 22 Table 22c Left and right protruding parts 22d Support leg 22e Anchor plate

Claims

**Claim 1**: An end seat holder with a table, wherein the end seat holder with a table has a seat part without a seat surface, an armrest part, and a backrest part, and is formed in a thick planar inverted U shape as an end seat holder, and includes a thin plate-shaped planar U-shaped table composed of a front part and left and right protruding parts. The table is detachably provided on the upper surface of the armrest part of the end seat holder. The table has support legs that extend downward from the inner sides of the rear parts of the left and right protruding parts, and the support legs have anchor plates that extend outward to the left and right at the lower tip parts. The table can be positioned by sliding the anchor plates on the lower surface of the end seat holder. An end seat holder with a table, characterized by the above. **Claim 2** The table is a thin plate-shaped planar U shape composed of a front part and left and right protruding parts. A support pin that abuts against the front surface of the armrest part of the end seat holder is provided on the front part, and a belt for detachably fixing the armrest part and the table is provided. The end seat holder with a table according to Claim 1, characterized by the above. **Claim 3** The end seat holder with a table according to Claim 2, characterized in that two support pins are provided at both left and right ends of the front part.

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