TISCARE2022
An International Multistakeholder Workshop
25-26 April 2022, Tampere, Finland
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!!!
Technologies and Infrastructures of Sustainable Continence Care (TISCARE2022).
An International Multistakeholder Workshop, 25-26 April 2022, Tampere, Finland
Incontinence – i.e. the lack of control of one’s bladder or bowels – is a common health problem that affects large parts of the population across the world. Yet, societies across the world are designed, built, and governed as if everyone were in control of their bladder and bowels:
All this threatens the sustainable development of societies – everywhere across the globe. The threat is real. In OECD countries alone, adult incontinence pads make about five percent of municipal waste, contributing to global warming and climate change through incineration and landfill. While the industry develops new, more sustainable solutions, in societies at large, circular economies for continence products are still in their infancy. The production of biodegradable pads is too expensive for market penetration. Health systems lack integrated services that would fully understand and meet the needs of persons who live with incontinence, at different stages of life.
The positive news is that, in the field of continence care, there is plenty of untapped potential for societal and technological innovations that could help save the planet, while increasing social justice and improving the public economy. The aim of this event is to catalyse such change!
Bringing together continence care experts in social, political, economic and health sciences, putting them in the same table with continence technology specialists and engineers, experts in urban planning, architecture, waste management, and circular economy, as well as patient organizations, health professionals, and the industry, TISCARE2022 sets out to define, what the term “sustainable continence care” means.
The event evolves around parallel workshops, where the participants craft a shared understanding of what sustainable continence care means for different disciplines and industries – and what it takes from different societies to get there. In the workshops, the participants produce open access data on expert visions on sustainable future in continence care. The data will be archived after the event, so the event participants as well as others can utilise it freely for purposes of research, teaching, and innovation.
The registration is now open. The places go at first serve first come basis, so register quickly, and join the efforts to define first international definition for sustainable continence care.
The registration fees are very accessible, and all fees include the workshop program, dinner with an evening program (award winning stand-up comedian Gusset Grippers).
More information on the event through this link: https://events.tuni.fi/tiscare2022/
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
You can now register for this event. Please click here to find general information about the actual registration procedure. At the bottom of the page you will also find information on how and under what conditions you can buy a business ticket (where applicable). You will also be able to register on this page.
In case you want to have more details/information, please visit the FAQ page first.
The main focus of the event is to co-create expert knowledge on holistically sustainable continence care and its future. To make sure that the knowledge is available to stakeholders after the event, we will record, store, and archive the workshop proceedings in an open access database after the event.
During the registration process, you will be asked to provide your informed consent to participate in the data collection for the workshop. On this page, you will find information about the methods of data collection and data protection. Please read it carefully before registering.
WFIPP is very much looking forward to welcoming as many people as possible at this ground-breaking event which is being organized by Tampere University in Finland with the collaboration of WFIPP.
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WFIPP is organizing An International Multistakeholder Workshop together with the Tampere University on 25-26 April 2022 in Tampere, Finland.
TISCARE2022
An International Multistakeholder Workshop
25-26 April 2022, Tampere, Finland
Incontinence – i.e. the lack of control of one’s bladder or bowels – is a common health problem that affects large parts of the population across the world.
Yet, societies across the world are designed, built, and governed as if everyone were in control of their bladder and bowels.
Public toileting is designed for those who ‘can hold’.
Waste management infrastructures and housing design do not account for the storage and disposal of incontinence pads – not even in eldercare homes.
In the planning of carbon neutral cities, incontinence is barely mentioned.
Health systems generally lack continence knowledge in primary care, with treatable leaking going regularly untreated – consequently, many people end up using incontinence pads for decades, for problems that could be cured by an early intervention.
The list could go on…
All this threatens the sustainable development of societies – everywhere across the globe. The threat is real.
In OECD countries alone, adult incontinence pads make about five percent of municipal waste, contributing to global warming and climate change through incineration and landfill…
While the industry is constantly searching for new, more sustainable solutions, in societies at large, circular economies for continence products are still in their infancy…
The production of biodegradable pads is still too expensive for market penetration…
Health systems lack integrated services that would fully understand and meet the needs of persons who live with incontinence, at different stages of life…
The positive news is that, in the field of continence care, there is plenty of untapped potential for societal and technological innovations that could help save the planet, while increasing social justice and improving the public economy.
The aim of TISCARE2022 is to catalyse such change.
Bringing together continence care experts in social, political, economic and health sciences, putting them in the same table with continence technology specialists and engineers, experts in urban planning, architecture, waste management, and circular economy, as well as patient organizations, health professionals, and the industry, TISCARE2022 sets out to define, what the term “sustainable continence care” means.
TISCARE2022 understands the terms technology and infrastructure widely, including technologies in the sense of engineering, infrastructures of built environment, as well as infrastructures and technologies of governance in the social scientific and political sense.
The event evolves around parallel workshops, where the participants craft a shared understanding of what sustainable continence care means for different disciplines and industries – and what it takes from different societies to get there.
The data produced in the workshops will be made openly accessible after the event, for the participants to utilise in their own work, be it research, development of health systems, or business initiatives aiming at sustainability transitions.
The event is organised in a hybrid format, allowing both face-to-face and online participation in the plenaries and workshops. To facilitate informal networking and sharing of ideas amongst the participants, there will be evening programme for both the workshop dates. I.e., for those traveling to Tampere, it is advisable to book the departure for Wed 27 April😉.
The workshop is organised by the Pad Project – a research project based in Tampere University and funded by the Academy of Finland, Kone Foundation, in collaboration with the World Federation for Incontinence and Pelvic Problems (WFIPP), with funding from Medtronic.