3D Printers for Autonomy in the Care of Inpatients in Continuing and Rehabilitation Care

Patients hospitalized in Continuing and Rehabilitation Care Units (CRCU) are for the most part elderly people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, requiring individual, personalized rehabilitation care. Some of these patients require ergotherapy to help them regain functional ability in everyday activities. The ergotherapist organizes therapeutic activities tailored to patients' needs, with a view to optimizing their level of autonomy. Loss of autonomy is closely linked to nutritional status, which often tends towards malnutrition in patients admitted to CRCU, with deleterious consequences for the elderly. The use of technical aids to facilitate meal-taking could be a way of alleviating undernutrition. A technical aid is defined as a material aid that enables elderly or disabled people to compensate for a limitation in activity. The investigators are interested in the use of adapted cutlery, as patients often find it difficult to eat on their own, being unable to grip their cutlery correctly. Commercially adapted cutlery exists, but it is expensive and difficult to use because it is not adapted to each patient (standard size) and is too heavy. What's more, the investigators observe that their use does not necessarily improve the patient's degree of dependence, generally measured by the Katz scale. The idea of the team of ergotherapist is to offer ergonomic cutlery handles with diameters adapted to patients' degree of prehension. They offer handles with diameters of …

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