Apron Improvement to the Benefit of Geriatric Health Facility User Who Spills Food / 日本農村医学会雑誌

  This paper reports our saccess in improving an apron used by a hemiplegic man when eating to protect clothes in a geriatric health services facility. The improved apron is useful at home, and helpful for caregivers. He needed assistance during meals and spilled food so frequently that clothes had to be changed after each meal. Frequent changes of clothes meant big burden for persons who looked after him at his home. His wife said, “Changing clothes after every meal will be very troubles some”, Sowe triedto improve the apron by use of cheap and easily available material. After trial and error we succeeded in making the apron that pleased both him and his family.