Challenge

More than 80% of residents in residential elderly care suffer from unwanted urine leakage. Systematic incontinence rounds are therefore carried out day and night.

On the one hand, this is disturbing for the users themselves and, on the other hand, takes up a lot of the carer's time and resources that could be better spent on providing tailored care.

With this project, the non-profit organisation Zorg-Saam ZKJ wants to have a solution developed and tested to offer more comfort to residents in residential care for the elderly who experience unwanted urine loss. At the same time, such a solution could realise significant time savings for caregivers.

ZorgSaam aims for an innovative solution that eliminates the need for systematic checking of incontinence pants, with numerous benefits for both carers and caregivers.

ZorgSaam wishes to deploy new technology that detects when incontinence pants are saturated, linked to a call system. In doing so, ZorgSaam also wants to collect data that can support and improve the approach to incontinence and the policy around it.