Connecting Audio and Radio Sensing Systems to Improve Care at Home

Other illness

• have other cancer diagnosis (excluding non-melanomatous skin cancer); or
• have cognitive impairment (assessed by the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire).

Other

• Patients and their caregivers will be excluded if they:
• are unable to read, speak, or understand English;
• have more than one type of ostomy;

• Phase I: The investigators will only be recruiting patients for this phase
• Patients must:
• have been surgically treated for colorectal or bladder cancer with curative intent;
• have had an ostomy with curative intent for at least 90 days;
• be able to read and speak English;
• be 18 years or older;
  • Phase II: The investigators will be recruiting patients and caregivers as a dyad for this phase
• Patients must:
  • have been surgically treated for colorectal or bladder cancer with curative intent;
  • be within one month of hospital discharge of a newly created ostomy with curative intent;
  • be able to read and speak English;
  • be 18 years or older;
  • have a caregiver who is willing to participate in the study;
• Caregivers must:
  • be 18 years or older;
  • be able to read and speak English;
  • be identified as the primary caregiver by the patient;
  • have not themselves been diagnosed with cancer or received cancer treatment during the study (to ensure that patients and caregivers focus their efforts on care of the patient).