Smart phone reminder system for managing incontinence at nursing home

Nowadays, mobile phones are used everywhere and every time in our daily life ranging from communication, entertainment to health and wellness applications. For managing incontinence among dementia subjects at nursing home, it is difficult to have timely diaper change with regular scheduled checks. Delays in diaper change results serious implications in economic, social and clinical aspects. So we developed intelligent Continence Management System (iCMS) to enable timely diaper change by sensing diaper wetness and prompting for assistance. Besides reliable wetness detection, a simple and easy to use reminder is important to attract immediate attentions from care givers. With clinical trials conducted at nursing home, real user needs and limitations of initial reminder system can be identified. Based on application requirements and user needs, smart phone reminder system is designed and integrated into iCMS to effectively notify the care givers for timely diaper change; thus, enhancing quality of incontinence management practices at nursing home.