ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025
New Insights on Hydration Monitoring in Elderly Patients by Interdigitated Wearable Sensors.
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Abstract
The progressive aging of the population requires reliable, non-invasive, and real-time tools to monitor hydration, prevent dehydration-related complications, and promote active aging in elderly patients. Wearable sensors based on interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) and on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) represent a promising tool thanks to their miniaturization, sensitivity to dielectric variations with humidity, and compatibility with flexible substrates. This study reports the design, fabrication, and metrological characterization of inkjet-printed IDEs for skin hydration monitoring, as a building block of a multisensor wearable device. IDEs were fabricated on polyimide substrates using silver nanoparticle-based ink. Their characterization involved the following: (i) morphological evaluation by scanning electron microscopy; (ii) EIS measurements in KCl solutions, leading to developing a regression model to correlate impedance with salt concentration; (iii) in vitro EIS validation on agar gel samples, which demonstrated a robust linear relationship between the impedance phase shift at 199.5 Hz and water loss, with consistent sensitivity values across sensors. The results confirm the feasibility of IDEs for hydration monitoring, identifying optimal frequency ranges and validating regression models. These findings represent a critical step toward the development of multisensor wearable devices for elderly monitoring, enabling decentralized and continuous health monitoring to improve healthcare sustainability and telemedicine.
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