TY - GEN
T1 - Development of Self-Destructive Urine Detection Film Using Water-soluble Resin
AU - Isozaki, Yoshiyuki
AU - Umezawa, Akihiro
AU - Iwata, Hiroyasu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The increasingly aging population in Japan, has given rise to a shortage of caregiver availability. By the year 2025, it is projected that there will be a need for 380,000 caregivers. One of Caregivers' compulsory tasks consists in checking diapers every 2 hours both during the day and at night. It becomes even more burdensome when they must also do this around or after midnight, depriving them of quality sleep. The use of excretion detector devices may provide a solution to this problem. However, there are sanitary limitations to the recovery and reuse of such devices. Additionally, there is obvious discomfort that comes with attaching a large device to a diaper. To address this challenge, the disposability, and ultra-thinness of the device presented in this study are paramount. We developed and evaluated disposable film-based urine detector devices for caregivers use.
AB - The increasingly aging population in Japan, has given rise to a shortage of caregiver availability. By the year 2025, it is projected that there will be a need for 380,000 caregivers. One of Caregivers' compulsory tasks consists in checking diapers every 2 hours both during the day and at night. It becomes even more burdensome when they must also do this around or after midnight, depriving them of quality sleep. The use of excretion detector devices may provide a solution to this problem. However, there are sanitary limitations to the recovery and reuse of such devices. Additionally, there is obvious discomfort that comes with attaching a large device to a diaper. To address this challenge, the disposability, and ultra-thinness of the device presented in this study are paramount. We developed and evaluated disposable film-based urine detector devices for caregivers use.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871432
DO - 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871432
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 36086278
AN - SCOPUS:85138127671
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 861
EP - 864
BT - 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2022
Y2 - 11 July 2022 through 15 July 2022
ER -