The Engineering in Medicine and Health Division is pleased to announce the eighth ‘Incontinence: The Engineering Challenge’ seminar. This taboo subject is often not discussed openly, preventing engineers from hearing about real-life issues endured by sufferers and problems faced by carers and nurses. It is essential that engineers develop new and existing technologies that can help limit embarrassment, disguise conditions and allow sufferers to live normal lives.
This two-day seminar is the principal European meeting in this area, and brings engineers, clinicians, researchers, commercial designers and producers, nurses, carers and users together, to examine existing solutions and solve current problems. As well as invited lectures featuring the very latest research and thinking, experts from outside the incontinence world will present technologies with the potential to revolutionise current practice.
Attending this event will help you:
Update awareness of where the needs and business opportunities are
Get fresh insights into the aspects of product performance that users rate highest and those which need improvements
Make new contacts and form new collaborations
Be stimulated to think afresh about familiar topics and problems
Technical Advantages
Discover recent work on technology to diagnose, treat and manage incontinence
Understand the limitations of existing technology
Develop initiatives to devise brand new solutions
Increase awareness of innovations in the field, find inspiration for new ideas, and form new collaborations
Question researchers in the field
Highlight the problems to be solved
Participate in a uniquely open and honest discussion
Get renewed motivation to improve the quality of life of people with incontinence
Who should attend
Engineers, clinicians, researchers, commercial designers and producers, nurses, carers and users