Dispensers for those who suffer from Parkinson's and dysphagia – Mediterráneo – 26/05/2023
The Science and Technology Park of the Universitat Jaume I has promoted, through the UJI.>LAB, the SPENDER project conceived to address the need to use thickener dispensers during food or liquid intake by people with Parkinson's disease with dysphagia, that is, with difficulties in ingesting food or liquids. Currently, people who have the pathology of dysphagia, derived from Parkinson's disease, resort to carrying the drink or food previously prepared with the thickener, or use children's devices to store and dose the thickener in situ when they are away from home. such as powdered milk dispensers for babies, which usually have some threaded closing mechanism that makes them difficult to handle. This situation limits the inclusion of people with dysphagia, conditioning their life outside the home and their comfort zone.
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