Project Description
How often do you see adult diapers at your area's medical store? Here's the catch: 20% of community-dwelling older adults have enough urinary incontinence to limit most aspects of their lives. Incontinence affects almost 400 million people worldwide. It is so common that incontinence makes an adult visit the washroom at least 4-7 times a day with no control. Over 50% aren’t treated or don’t consider it a medical condition, so much so that 3 out of 4 manage UI daily. So much is the taboo surrounding this condition! Despite the high prevalence and the social and economic implications of the condition, incontinence is not a priority on the health and social policy and stakeholder agenda worldwide.
Our solution is an assistive device that is non-invasive and takes EMG data of pelvic pressure parameters as an input to predict incontinence. The user can time their bathroom visits and be alerted early to avoid "accidents".
Urinary tract infections are a common reason for hospital visits. In the US alone, UTIs result in an estimated 7 million office visits, 1 million emergency department visits, and over 100,000 hospitalizations with an associated annual cost of $6 million. Most of which can be otherwise managed using a single device! Which is : It is non-invasive, as opposed to other options Unnecessary hospitalizations can be avoided and the device can be used Without professional assistance.
Our future ventures will include developing robust algorithms to process real time data, sensor placement within an ergonomic belt which gives ease of mobility/comfortable sensor placement for ease of mobility.
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