Interviewee: Gail Knight Date: 28 March 2013 Audio/video recording
Tackling Ageing Continence through Theory Tools and Technology TACT3
- Start date: 01 November 2008
- End date: 30 April 2012
The aim is to reduce the impact of continence difficulties for older people by:
Raising awareness of continence issues
Improving understanding of treatment services
Improving toilet provision for older people
Providing assistive devices for older people with continence disability
The work is in four sections
- Project management will make sure that the views of all the people affected by continence issues are heard and ensure that the devices developed through this research are commercialised
- Investigating continence care. If specialist continence care is significantly better than standard continence care? Exploring the views of patients, family and healthcare professionals, the advantages of specialist continence care and barriers to seeking treatment will be investigated.
- Investigating the problems older people have finding and using toilets when they are away from home. Exploring challenges facing toilet providers. Designing public toilets that would better suit the needs of older adults.
- Developing two products that have been requested by continence pad users:
- urine odour detector that will warn that the pad needs changing before any odour is detected by the human nose.
- smart underwear that will detect a pad leak immediately, giving warning before the leak spreads to outer clothes.
- Outputs (133)
- Impacts & reports (1)
- Outcomes (11)
- Data (3)
Speaker: Alison J. Orrell Date: 06 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Organiser: Eleanor van den Heuvel Date: 06 March 2013 Organised event
User-focussed design for assistive technology for continence : overcoming the taboo
Author: Eleanor van den Heuvel Date: 06 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Rona Agnew Date: 01 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Speaker: Gail Knight Date: 26 November 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Kenneth Southall Date: 03 October 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Mary Gilhooly Date: 03 October 2012 Conference paper/presentation
TACT3 : tackling ageing continence through theory tools and technology
Author: Eleanor van den Heuvel Date: 19 July 2012 Other Report
Speaker: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 17 July 2012 Presentation/lecture
Author: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 04 July 2012 Other publication/report
Author: Gail Knight Date: 04 July 2012 Other publication/report
Contributor: Gail Knight Date: 04 July 2012 Other publication/report
Contributor: Gail Knight Date: 04 July 2012 Other publication/report
Author: Gail Knight Date: 04 July 2012 Other publication/report
Author: Gail Knight Date: 04 July 2012 Other publication/report
Author: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 04 July 2012 Journal article
Author: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 04 July 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Gail Knight Date: 04 July 2012 Seminar/workshop
Author: Eleanor van den Heuvel Date: 04 July 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Meeting the challenge : continence difficulties and older people
Organiser: Eleanor van den Heuvel Date: 15 June 2012 Organised event
Consultant: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 01 May 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Consultant: Gail Knight Date: 01 May 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 01 May 2012 Journal article
Creator: Jo-Anne Bichard Date: 01 May 2012 Website