Abstract
In Japan, the shortage of personnel is a problem in long-term care nursing and rehabilitative care prevention. Nevertheless, Japan has taken measures to compensate for these shortages by promoting medical and nursing care activities using robotic technologies, and employing human resources from overseas. The purpose of this study was to determine potential legal issues and subsequent implications for care during prevention gymnastic exercises for the elderly using Pepper in long-term health facilities. The application program of Care-Prevention Gymnastics Exercises for Pepper (Pepper with CPGE) was made by the Xing Company Japan. Currently, care workers become intermediaries for the safe use of Pepper with CPGE. However, it was realized that some legal issues may arise if Pepper with CPGE alone will carry out these preventive care programs for the elderly without the presence of care workers as intermediaries. In this situation, using Pepper with CPGE alone to conduct care prevention gymnastics will require safety measures to prevent these possible practice issues and anticipate implications for care. In this regard, determining detailed target levels of rehabilitation exercise demands and environmental setting safety become essential factors. The use of humanoid robots in healthcare is expected to influence more practice protocols in contemporary and futurist rehabilitative human care. The identification of possible safety issues in performance and environmental situations, and implications for care are critical to ensure safe and valuable rehabilitative health care practices for the elderly population.
Highlights
In Japan, the shortage of personnel is a problem in long-term care nursing and rehabilitative care prevention
It was realized that some legal issues may arise if Pepper with Care Prevention Gymnastics Exercises (CPGE) alone will carry out these preventive care programs for the elderly without the presence of care workers as intermediaries
It is concerning that some legal issues may arise if Pepper with CPGE alone will carry out these preventive care programs for the elderly, that is, without the presence of human care workers as intermediaries
Summary
In Japan, the shortage of personnel is a problem in long-term care nursing and in rehabilitative care. As the elderly population increases, shortage of medical (healthcare) personnel has become a significant problem. Under the current trend scenario, the estimated gap between supply and demand is approximately 0.38 million [3] In response to these identified needs and demands, it is realized that technical capabilities of healthcare robots will be dramatically needed, and evolving consistently to meet these needs [4] [5] [6] [7]. The role functions of these robots as intermediaries were shown to be of high versatility, indicating that health care situations such as those demanded by elderly persons can be performed by other healthcare providers such as by human physiotherapists [10]. In introducing Pepper with CPGE to provide elderly care in the psychiatric hospital or health care facility units for the elderly, it is essential to consider legal responsibilities, especially for the possibilities of accidents involving physico-physiological activities
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