カジノオンライン (Head office: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture; President & CEO: Ichiro Kashitani; hereinafter Toyota Tsusho) and LIXIL Corporation (Head office: Koto-ku, Tokyo; Director, Representative Executive Officer, President, and CEO Kinya Seto; hereinafter LIXIL) will start selling "KINUAMI U", a foam shower that alleviates bathing assistance work on caregivers and improves the comfort of care recipients when bathing, to hospitals and nursing care facilities nationwide starting December 1 (to be delivered in January 2022) This product was developed by LIXIL and its subsidiary NITTO CERA Corporation and will be sold by Toyota Tsusho, which has exclusive selling rights to hospitals and nursing care facilities

Part of nursing care work, bathing assistance is an essential but a hard job, and is called one of the three major caregiving duties, along with meal assistance and excretion assistance Among them, bathing assistance is a challenge that requires a lot of man-hours, such as when whipping and applying soap, and pouring hot water to keep the care recipients warm, etc For the care recipients, they face problems such as health effects due to a decrease in body temperature in the bathroom, as well as dry skin after washing, etc

A one-month trial of “KINUAMI U” was conducted at Hatsudai Rehabilitation Hospital (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) in August 2020, and many caregivers and care recipients commented that they found the bathing more comfortable In the future, we will start selling the product to hospitals and nursing care facilities nationwide, providing safe and secure nursing care sites for more people