Tag: Dysphagia

CCRI Seminar Series – ‘How clinical practice, ergonomics, engineering and design methods have interacted in the development of a dysphagia tool, influenced its function and design and aided its development into a commercial reality’ with Professor Alaster Yoxall (ADMRC)

Seminar banner - Picture of Alaster Yoxall, ADMRC logo and picture of woman with fluid thickness tool - courtesy of Professor Alaster Yoxall

Please join us on Wednesday 08 March 2023 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from the ADMRC‘s Professor Alaster Yoxall. How clinical practice, ergonomics, engineering and design methods have interacted in the development of a dysphagia tool, influenced its function and design and aided its development […]

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Wednesday 20 February 2019 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Alaster Yoxall (Professor of Packaging Ergonomics)

Images for Professor Alaster Yoxall's C3RI Research Seminar - courtesy of Alaster Yoxall

Speaker: Professor Alaster Yoxall (Professor of Packaging Ergonomics) Title: Designing a tool for determining the thickness of fluids for patients with dysphagia using a mixed-methods approach Between 50 and 75% of residents in nursing homes have swallowing difficulties. For frail older adults difficulties with eating and drinking can be life threatening and possibly result in pneumonia, the second most common (and serious) infection […]

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