The technology that makes life easier – Tønsberg Blad

 At the newly opened Innovatoriet at University College Buskerud and Vestfold appears around 100 products from 30 manufacturers in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, which helps people with disabilities in everyday life.

 

 The 350 square meter exhibition space appear more products not shown in Norway earlier.

 Bed that lifts

 - This bed helps the user to get up, telling Development Torill Lønningdal and shows “Rotoflex” which is made by a Danish manufacturer.

 It is made for people who have difficulty getting into and out of bed without help. By pressing a button promises the bed located in the up into a sitting position – making it easy to move into a wheelchair or join the conversation in the room.

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  – Many people live much of their life in bed, so that many can benefit, says Renate Solstad is a group of Nøtterøy on a tour.

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 Planned The

 In addition to the bed department appears kitchen aids, personal care products and aids in the group “activities” in the exhibition. In the department of personal hygiene we find a bathtub that can entres from the side through a door. Thus, only a small threshold that must be overcome before it is in place in the tub.

  For people with little or no arm strength, there are a lot of products – including a machine that lifts a spoon for people with no arm strength, and little utilities that make it easier to open the lid and milk cartons, squeeze tubes, snap buttons, cut nails and put on socks.

 There are also machines that open the doors, the front and from the curtains using voice control and robots that vacuum. The products can be used at home, in care homes and institutions. The exhibition will be for twelve months, and next year it is planned viewing aids for children and youth with disabilities.

 For all

 - Innovatoriet is first and foremost a learning context, to increase knowledge about welfare technology and innovation processes, says Lønningdal.

 The center will be used by students in several subjects. The School Health Sciences students will be updated on the latest technologies welfare, but also, among others, engineering students can have a lot to learn here.

  – We will also invite all interested parties in the region here. It may be professionals, carers, users, councils of elders, councils for the disabled and so on, says Lønningdal.

 Director of Health Education on College Anne Marie Gran Brown says health and technology are two concepts that many do not harmonize so well, and many people’s immediate thought is that technology will lead to less human contact with users.

  – It is totally foreign to us that the hands are being replaced by technology. The technology is a supplement that makes life easier for both patients and caregivers, she said.