The Health and Welfare Information Association has compiled a report of the future trend and development of the home care and rehabilitation equipment industry by summing up the result of questionnaires of home care equipment users, which was conducted from September, 2007 to May,2008, the trend of performance of exhibitors participated in International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition a...

Healthcare providers involved in patient handling activities are at risk for injury. One solution to minimize this risk is the use of assistive equipment. However concern exists that use of assistive equipment may minimize the rehabilitation potential of patients compared to using manual handling skills and other traditional techniques. Practical examples are provided of how typical assistive e...

Rehabilitation is important to improve quality of life for mobility-impaired patients. Smart walkers are a commonly used solution that should embed automatic and objective tools data-driven human-in-the-loop control monitoring. However, present solutions focus on extracting few specific metrics from dedicated sensors with no unified full-body approach. We investigate general, real-time, pose es...