Background

The Drinkup concept came about through necessity in 1997, when a close relative of the innovator was involved in a serious fall resulting in hospitalisation. It soon became evident that the patient couldn't drink anything without constantly having to ask for help. This caused the patient great discomfort, anxiety, a feeling of helplessness and symptoms of dehydration. A very simple but highly effective device was made to deal with these problems, which in turn provided a constant means of hydration to improve independence and to aid the patient's recovery.

Research then showed that existing products were quite limited in their scope of use and that none were designed for organised, managed, easy, or cost effective use throughout professional healthcare provision or simply by people in their own homes, who needed more versatile yet affordable equipment.

The idea of providing a system to address these issues then came about, coinciding with the 'best practice' policy writing to provide better nutrition and hydration to all those in various care situations, especially the elderly.

Through much development the device became the patented Drinkup system, designed to assist less able, vulnerable and elderly people in all situations, whether at home, in long term care or in hospital.

For more information, visit the Drinkup website (it will open in a new browser window).