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By Dr Faustina Hwang, Biomedical Engineering<\/a>, University of Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people know the importance of staying well hydrated on a hot sunny day. \u00a0However, for vulnerable older adults, ensuring adequate fluid intake day-to-day is key to maintaining mental and physical health and lowering the risk of hospital admission.<\/p>\n

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Care home staff used a mobile app to record how much clients ate and drank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team from the University of Reading<\/a> has been working in partnership with Perton Manor<\/a> specialist care home in South Staffordshire to develop Hydration HEALTH (Hydration in Elderly Adults Linked to Temperature and Humidity), a technology-based system which aims to detect risk of dehydration and help care home staff ensure all their clients are drinking enough to stay healthy.<\/p>\n

The Hydration HEALTH system monitors the temperature and humidity inside and outside the building as well as the client\u2019s food and drink intake and fluid loss in order to better understand how these factors interact and affect their hydration levels.<\/p>\n

The system was designed in collaboration with Perton Manor, and was recently trialed for a week in the specialist care home.\u00a0 During this pilot study, sensors were installed inside and outside the care home for continuous logging of temperature and humidity, staff used a mobile app to record clients\u2019 food and drink intake throughout a 24-hour period, and six clients gave biological samples to be analysed for biomarkers of hydration.<\/p>\n

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The project has provided valuable insights about how to design and deploy a hydration-monitoring technology for use in a real-world setting, and has also produced a very rich dataset.\u00a0 This data is currently being analysed in order to characterise how well the system has worked in practice, and to investigate what features in the data would be most useful for prompting action by care staff.<\/p>\n

Technology for health<\/h4>\n

The project has highlighted the potential benefits of the technology for supporting person-centred care of people with dementia.<\/p>\n

Richard Hodgkisson, Nurse Manager, said \u201cMany of our clients are no longer able to verbalise their needs or what they like and dislike.\u00a0 I would normally need to look across 30 days worth of paperwork to get an overview of their patterns. Having the information available on a computer makes it much easier to tailor for individual preferences.\u201d The project team are discussing possibilities for further developing Hydration HEALTH into a system that could be used in care homes on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

Hydration HEALTH is an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers from the Meteorology<\/a>, Biomedical Engineering<\/a>, Food and Nutritional Sciences<\/a>, and Typography & Graphic Communication<\/a> Departments at the University of Reading, working in partnership with Perton Manor care home.\u00a0 We are indebted to the clients who participated in this study and their families.\u00a0 We also thank the care home staff for their time, participation and support.\u00a0 This research is supported by an EPSRC Institutional sponsorship grant to the University of Reading.<\/p>\n

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An example of the temperature and humidity monitoring of the environment at Perton Manor. The left plot shows the 5 min variation of internal temperature in one of the common areas of the home. Note the significant variations in temperature throughout the period. The right panel shows a scatter plot of the internal versus external humidity in the same common area, showing significant periods when the internal humidity is low (particularly when the external temperature is low – blue colours).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

13-19 March 2017 is Nutrition and Hydration Week<\/a> which \u2018aims to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally and globally.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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