고령친화 운동의자 개발 사례연구

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop an exercise chair that reflects the body size of older adults with embedding exercise functions for the arm and legs.BR Method: The development of the exercise chair was completed through chair design, plan, production and modification based on the selection of the requirements for an age-friendly exercise chair with the execution of the research of related documents and market and the actual measurement of the older adults’ body size (158 old people, from 65 to 94 years old) and interviews (10 old people who attend silver welfare center, 10 senior sports instructors, and 14 employees of silver welfare center) from February 2019 to March 2020.BR Results: The developed exercise chair took into account the body dimensions of older adults’ (seat height 380 mm, back height 900 mm) and equipped the exercise functions of psoas muscles, hip adductor muscles, biceps, and rotator cuff muscles. The improvement of the exercise chair appeared as the amendment of design for the revelation of resistibility on function for arm movement, adjustment of operation allowance during input and output of leg movement tool and addition of finishing touches to solve noise problems on the operation unit of arm movement.BR Conclusion: In this way, a change of perception and active industry-university cooperation are required so that age-friendly development studies such as this exercise chair developed by considering the exercise conditions of the elderly welfare facility and reflecting the body size of the elderly can be attempted in the field of sports for the elderly.