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Squat Lift-up Aid / Elder Sanitary

Squat Lift-up Aid
Squat Lift-up Aid

Use of toilets in Indian scenario requires sitting in Squatting posture. Getting up from it requires high strain in joints and excessive amount of energy and power. So Squat Lift-up Aid was thought and developed in order to provide assistance to the elderly.
Inspiration for the design of Squat Lift-up Aid is originated from old age people’s sitting postures and problems faced by them when getting up from it, power applied by them to lift themselves. Further, the inspiration and idealization got process from the working of a simple Car-Jack, Pulley’s pulling up mechanisms etc.

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PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur

PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur
Jabalpur, India

Pratik Raj,
PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur

Kewal Chand Swami,
PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur

Deepak Nagar,
PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur

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