Intelligent Control and Automation, 2018, 9, 85-93 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ica ISSN Online: 2153-0661 ISSN Print: 2153-0653 DOI: 10.4236/ica.2018.93007 Aug. 24, 2018 85 Intelligent Control and Automation Potential Legal Issues and Care Implications during Care-Prevention Gymnastic Exercises for the Elderly Using Pepper in Long Term Health Care Facilities Ryuichi Tanioka 1 , Rozzano Locsin 2 , Yuko Yasuhara 2 , Tetsuya Tanioka 2 1 Graduate School of Policy Studies Student, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan 2 Department of Nursing, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan Abstract In Japan, the shortage of personnel is a problem in long-term care nursing and rehabilitative care prevention. Nevertheless, Japan has taken measures to compensate for these shortages by promoting medical and nursing care activi- ties using robotic technologies, and employing human resources from over- seas. The purpose of this study was to determine potential legal issues and subsequent implications for care during prevention gymnastic exercises for the elderly using Pepper in long-term health facilities. The application pro- gram of Care-Prevention Gymnastics Exercises for Pepper (Pepper with CPGE) was made by the Xing Company Japan. Currently, care workers be- come intermediaries for the safe use of Pepper with CPGE. However, it was realized that some legal issues may arise if Pepper with CPGE alone will carry out these preventive care programs for the elderly without the presence of care workers as intermediaries. In this situation, using Pepper with CPGE alone to conduct care prevention gymnastics will require safety measures to prevent these possible practice issues and anticipate implications for care. In this regard, determining detailed target levels of rehabilitation exercise de- mands and environmental setting safety become essential factors. The use of humanoid robots in healthcare is expected to influence more practice proto- cols in contemporary and futurist rehabilitative human care. The identifica- tion of possible safety issues in performance and environmental situations, and implications for care are critical to ensure safe and valuable rehabilitative health care practices for the elderly population. Keywords Potential Legal Issues, Care-Prevention Gymnastic Exercises, Elderly, Pepper, How to cite this paper: Tanioka, R., Loc- sin, R., Yasuhara, Y. and Tanioka, T. (2018) Potential Legal Issues and Care Implica- tions during Care-Prevention Gymnastic Exercises for the Elderly Using Pepper in Long Term Health Care Facilities. Intelli- gent Control and Automation, 9, 85-93. https://doi.org/10.4236/ica.2018.93007 Received: May 15, 2018 Accepted: August 21, 2018 Published: August 24, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access