• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.173-184
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• 2006

This study was diagnosed the managing of educational progress of homehelper training center proceeded with a goal to improve the proper direction to grasp of the contentment of education programs. In order to attain a research objective, I surveyed 18 charge of education person in homehelper training center. Through the problem of the mananging of homehelper education, I try to show the point for growth of homehelper training. First, the course of the education and training for home helper should be classified in the field of the service activity for home helper. Second, the education centers need to establish the weekend lecture or the night lecture for volunteer with an occupation. Third, the education centers need to division the educational course according a characteristic of student. Fourth, when the course is opened, the number of persons is suitable thirty. Fifth, it needs to add the education contents to establish an attitude with volunteer for elderly people.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.9.1-9
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• 2001

Concerning the development of suitable healthcare equipment for a aged people at their homes in order to reduce the labor and increase the efficiency in the homehelpers' work, we conducted a study on the actual conditions of healthcare in Kyoto city (healthcare in taking a meal and excretion, moving and taking a bath by using a hand-powered lift, moving by a wheelchair, shower carrier healthcare, assistance in body care and housework) by digital video filming, interviews and layout investigations. On the base of those investigations by using methods for analysis of video pictures, we divided the healthcate work into scenes and e exctracted the main problems in terms of health care equipment, information, environment, healthcare skills, mental burden, social s system, family burden, ete. Furthermore the questionnaire survey of home helpers (18 persons - 50% answers) clarified that more than half of them have lumbago pains and the biggest load in the everyday healthcare c comes from moving the patients or getting them into or out of t the equipment for moving. Finally we considered concrete proposals appropriate for each h healthcare scene image, based on evaluation toward efficiency (design guidelines) for suitable healthcare equipment for aged people at their homes: 1) Design toward a proper posture 2) Design toward self-help possibility 3) Design toward patient active participation 4) Design toward rationality of the whole process 5) Design toward place-appropriate healthcare equipment 6) Design toward healing of mind 7) Good level of healthcare skills 8) Economic, systematic rationality