Chair Design Affects How Older Adults Rise from a Chair
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Chair design affects how older adults rise from a chair.
OBJECTIVE To determine how modifications of key chair design aspects, such as seat height, posterior seat tilt, backrest recline, seat compressibility, and armrest placement, affect how older adults rise from a chair and the seating comfort they experience. DESIGN Cross-sectional comparison. SETTING Congregate housing facility and university laboratory. SUBJECTS Two groups of volunteers, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0002-8614
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1996.tb06402.x