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Development and Evaluation of Fall Impact Protective Clothing for the Elderly Women

여성 노인을 위한 낙상충격 보호팬츠 개발 및 평가

  • Park, Jung Hyun (Research Institute of Ecology for the Elderly, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Jin Suk (Research Institute of Ecology for the Elderly, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Jeong Ran (Dept. of clothing & Textiles, Pusan National University/Research Institute of Ecology for the Elderly, Pusan National University)
  • 박정현 (부산대학교 노인생활환경연구소) ;
  • 이진숙 (부산대학교 노인생활환경연구소) ;
  • 이정란 (부산대학교 의류학과/부산대학교 노인생활환경연구소)
  • Received : 2018.07.31
  • Accepted : 2018.10.05
  • Published : 2018.10.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify the impact protection performance and to evaluate the activity, design, fit, and pad characteristics of the fall impact protection clothing for elderly women. The protective clothing was designed as pants type and underwear type, and an impact protection pad in the form of a tightly connected regular hexagon piece was inserted in the hip and hip joints. The pad was made of two kinds of foam single pad and foam and gel combination pad so that they could be inserted into pants type and underwear type, respectively. The results of the shock absorption performance of the fall impact protective clothing showed that when the impact force of 4601N was applied to the pants type protective clothing, the impact force was reduced by 29% in the foam pad type and 26% in the gel and foam pad type. When the force of 5113N was applied to the underwear type, it decreased by 40% in the foam pad type and by 34% in the gel and foam pad type. As a result of wearing evaluation of subject group, it was found that fit and activity of underwear type was better than that of pants type. Foam pad type was evaluated to be lighter than gel and foam pad type in both the subject and the expert group and the gel and foam pad was evaluated to be more flexible in the expert group.

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