Technical development and clinical evaluation of intelligent continence management system at nursing home

Aung Aung Phyo Wail (1) , Victor Siang Fook Foo (1) , Maniyeri Jayachandran (1) , Jit Biswas (1) , Chris D. Nugent (2) , Maurice Mulvenna (2) , Daqing Zhang (3, 4, 5, 6) , David Craig (7) , Peter Passmore (7) , Lee Jer-En (8) , Jer En Lee (8) , Philip Lin Kiat Yap (8)

1 Institute for Infocomm Research - I²R [Singapore]
2 School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Computing and Engineering - University of Ulster)
3 ACMES-SAMOVAR - Architecture, Cloud continuum, formal Models, artificial intElligence and Services in distributed computing
4 TSP - RST - Département Réseaux et Services de Télécommunications
5 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
6 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7 QUB - Queen's University [Belfast]
8 Department of Geriatric Medicine [Singapore] (Alexandra Hospital)

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

Mots clés: Urinary incontinence; Intelligent continence management system; Dementia; Elderly; Nursing home; Ambient intelligence

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Gériatrie et gérontologie

Aung Aung Phyo Wail, Victor Siang Fook Foo, Maniyeri Jayachandran, Jit Biswas, Chris D. Nugent, et al.. Technical development and clinical evaluation of intelligent continence management system at nursing home. Healthcom 2010 : 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking Applications and Services, Jul 2010, Lyon, France. pp.345 - 352, ⟨10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556544⟩. ⟨hal-01309475⟩