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Title: A Study on The Method to Breach The Environmental Barriers in Houses. -A Study on The Reform-Helper System for The Elderly Part.3-
Author: Tetsuya Hara (Touhoku Fukushi University) Hiroshi Suzuki (Fukusima University)
Yoshinori Saito (Koriyama Technical College of Intelligence & Business)
Proceedings of 12th Japanese Conference of Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology . Vol.12, pp.209 -212 (August, 1997)
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Yoshinori Saito,
Koriyama Technical College of Intelligence & Business
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Abstract
In this paper, a survey of the Reform-Helper system is reported. The aim of the system is to help the elderly with the reformation their houses depending upon their physical conditions. It was started by Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1993 and so several years have passed since it was enforced.
The approaches usually selected by the reform-helpers to breach the environmental barriers of these houses are reported. The authors try to find the relationships between the reform-helpers' occupations and their approaches. As the first step, they classify the reform-helpers' occupations into four groups, that is, those related to social welfare, medical service, architectures, and others. As the second step, they raise five popular reformed parts of these houses, such as, the bathrooms, the aisles and stairs, the floors, the walls, and the doorways. Then, they try to find the tendencies of the reformations of these five parts depending upon the reform-helpers' occupations. They mention that the reformations of the bathrooms are over ninety percent, such as, replacements of Japanese-style toilets with Western-style ones and installations of grab bars. And they conclude that those reformations mainly require the specialties of the medical service.