TY - GEN
T1 - Technical development and clinical evaluation of intelligent continence management system at nursing home
AU - Wai, Aung Aung Phyo
AU - Victor, Foo Siang Fook
AU - Jayachandran, Maniyeri
AU - Biswas, Jit
AU - Nugent, Chris
AU - Mulvenna, Maurice
AU - Daqing, Zhang
AU - Craig, David
AU - Passmore, Peter
AU - Jer-Ens, Lee
AU - Yaps, Philip
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - Urinary incontinence and diaper use is common among elderly people with dementia staying at nursing homes. Delays in timely diaper change will cause personal, social and economic ramifications to those elderly as well as to the carers who provide nursing care. In order to alleviate these daily care issues, an intelligent continence management system leveraging on sensors, pervasive sensor network, ambient intelligence and reminders is designed and developed. Clinical trial is conducted with multiple elderly people with dementia at a nursing home to evaluate the applicability and usefulness of the developed system. The analysis of trial outcomes and usability studies proves that this will be a feasible and effective approach to tackle the problems faced in managing incontinence effectively at nursing homes.
AB - Urinary incontinence and diaper use is common among elderly people with dementia staying at nursing homes. Delays in timely diaper change will cause personal, social and economic ramifications to those elderly as well as to the carers who provide nursing care. In order to alleviate these daily care issues, an intelligent continence management system leveraging on sensors, pervasive sensor network, ambient intelligence and reminders is designed and developed. Clinical trial is conducted with multiple elderly people with dementia at a nursing home to evaluate the applicability and usefulness of the developed system. The analysis of trial outcomes and usability studies proves that this will be a feasible and effective approach to tackle the problems faced in managing incontinence effectively at nursing homes.
KW - Ambient intelligence
KW - Dementia
KW - Elderly
KW - Intelligent continence management system
KW - Nursing home
KW - Urinary incontinence
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77957873480
U2 - 10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556544
DO - 10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556544
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957873480
SN - 9781424463749
T3 - 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services, Healthcom 2010
SP - 345
EP - 352
BT - 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services, Healthcom 2010
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -