Improve elderly people's sit-to-stand ability by using new designed additional armrests attaching on the standard walker

More and more elderly problems come to our life and the elderly health care become more important. Elderly people with lower extremities weakness usually use walkers to assist in walking. Although the commercial standard walkers (N-type) can improve elderly people's walking ability, users sometimes take risk of falling when using the standard walkers to perform sit-to-stand (STS). The purpose of this study is to design an additional armrest which can be attached to a standard walker for users performing STS more easily and evaluate it with clinical assessments and a body worn sensor.

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