A Wearable Device of Salivation Detection and Improvement for Elderly at High Risk for Dysphagia

Targeting older adults with high risks of dysphagia. This study introduced a wearable device for saliva detection and improvement in salivation. Said device could detect its users” long-term salivation situations and determine/issue the following when salivation occurred: whether the users salivated in their left or right cheeks and voice prompts reminding the users to swallow their saliva. In this way, excessive accumulation of saliva in the oral of the older adults is avoided., resulting in coughing and even pneumonia.