Scientist • Inventor • Founder
Thelma Liverpool
The Home Care Innovation Visionary™
Reimagining Care Around the Person
From a career in science and regulatory leadership at DuPont to a granted U.S. patent, Thelma Liverpool is building a future where essential care adapts to the person — not the other way around.
DuPont
Science & Regulatory Leadership
Patented Innovator
U.S. Patent 11,806,268
Excellence in Healthcare
Health 2.0, Dubai
Featured Cover Story
The Prime Today
Recognized Leader
Marquis Who's Who
The Future of Home Care™
What If Care Adapted to the Person—Instead of the Person Always Having to Adapt to Care?
For people living with limited mobility, essential daily care can mean repeated assistance, physical transfers and leaving the place where they are most comfortable—turning ordinary routines like bathing and personal hygiene into more complicated experiences.
After years inside world-class science and regulatory environments, Thelma began asking a different question: What if the goal isn't simply to move people to where care happens—but to bring more essential care to where the person already is?
Bring More Essential Care
to Where the Person
Already Is.
Preserve Dignity
Design for privacy, comfort, hygiene and humanity.
Support Independence
Design that supports what people can still do for themselves and reduces unnecessary dependency.
Support Caregivers
Design better tools around the realities of hands-on care.
Bathing in place.
Care in place.
Dignity in place.
From Vision to Innovation
Meet AidesPro™
Reimagining the Bed as a More Capable Care Environment
Thelma saw a problem hiding inside an everyday care routine: for someone who cannot easily leave the bed, bathing, toileting and other essential personal care can require moving the person to where the care happens.
Her answer was to rethink the bed itself.
Invented by Thelma Liverpool and developed through Thanni Holding Corporation, AidesPro™ brings essential personal-care functions closer to the person through an integrated, patented care environment designed around dignity, mobility limitations and the realities of caregiving.
What the Innovation Makes Possible
Bathing in Place
Supports bathing and showering while the person remains in bed.
In-Bed Toileting
Supports essential toileting without moving to a conventional bathroom.
Waste & Water Management
Integrates collection, drainage and waste-management functions bedside.
Beyond the Bed
Extends the person-centered approach into additional care and mobility environments.
The Larger Idea Isn't Simply a Better Bed.
It's a Better Way to Think About Where Care Happens.
Protected Innovation
From Idea to Intellectual Property
Thelma Liverpool didn't stop at identifying a care challenge or developing an invention. She took the additional step of protecting the intellectual property behind her work—turning an idea into a protected innovation with greater potential to be developed and advanced.
U.S. Patent
11,806,268
System for Collecting Body Waste of Non-Ambulatory Patients
Granted November 7, 2023
A Growing Patent Portfolio
U.S. Design Patent
D1,102,714 S
A U.S. design patent protecting the ornamental design of a garment created for patient care—extending Thelma's person-centered approach beyond the bed and into the broader care environment.
Granted November 25, 2025
A Foundation for What's Next
With intellectual-property protection established, Thelma can now focus on the next challenge: bringing the right partners and capabilities around her innovations to help move them toward broader real-world application.
Protected, proven and ready for the right partner.
Explore a PartnershipFrom Innovation to Impact
The Right Partners Can Help Bring the Vision to More People.
With a growing portfolio of protected intellectual property now established, the next opportunity is to bring the right capabilities around the innovation. Through Thanni Holding Corporation, Thelma is seeking aligned partners who can bring the expertise, resources and real-world insight needed to help advance AidesPro™ and a broader vision for person-centered home-care innovation.
Where Partnership Can Accelerate Progress
Manufacturers & Licensees
Help translate protected innovation into scalable products and pathways to market.
Investors & Funders
Help advance product development, commercialization readiness and future person-centered home-care innovation.
Healthcare Organizations
Bring real-world care insight and feedback to the development of future person-centered care solutions.
Strategic & Technology Partners
Bring complementary technology, expertise or capabilities that can extend what’s possible across home care and mobility.
See a Potential Fit?
Thelma's Point of View
The Dignity Imperative™ for Home Care
For Thelma, the true measure of home-care innovation isn't simply what technology can do. It's whether that innovation preserves dignity, supports independence and makes care more workable for the people giving and receiving it.
Four Principles for More Human-Centered Care
Care Where the Person Is
Design more essential care around where the person already is rather than continually requiring the person to adapt to the care environment.
Dignity by Design
Treat privacy, comfort and humanity as design requirements—not secondary considerations.
Independence Where Possible
Use innovation to support what people can still do for themselves and reduce unnecessary dependency.
Better Tools for Caregivers
Design around the realities of hands-on care so caregivers are better supported in the work they do every day.
The Future Isn't Just Smarter Equipment.
It's Care Designed Around the Person.
A Lifetime of Curiosity Put to Work
The Experience Behind the Vision
A Lifetime of Science, Curiosity & Problem-Solving
Thelma's journey to home-care innovation didn't begin in a startup incubator. It was shaped across decades of scientific training, corporate problem-solving, global experience, entrepreneurship and invention.
Each chapter strengthened the same instinct: observe closely, question limitations and look for a better way.
- 01
Science
Scientific Foundation
Chemistry education at Howard University and Fisk University established a foundation in scientific thinking, disciplined inquiry and problem-solving.
- 02
Real-World Problem-Solving
Science in Practice
At DuPont, Thelma applied that foundation across scientific, safety, health, environmental and regulatory responsibilities — experience that deepened her understanding of how ideas must work within real-world systems.
- 03
Broader Experience
A Broader Worldview
International work, Peace Corps service, language study and entrepreneurship across countries expanded the way Thelma approached people, problems and opportunity. In under-resourced communities, she saw children caring for sick parents before school — an early, formative encounter with how much unpaid, unsupported caregiving happens outside any formal system. Years later, during the Ebola crisis, she witnessed the direct physical risks health workers faced from prolonged contact with infectious waste. Both experiences would eventually shape her thinking about safer, more dignified approaches to hands-on care.
- 04
Everything Led Here.
Invention
From Problem-Solver to Inventor
That accumulated experience ultimately converged in product development, intellectual-property protection, the founding of Thanni Holding Corporation and a new focus on person-centered home-care innovation.
Observe closely.
Question limitations.
Find a better way.
A problem-solving instinct shaped across a lifetime — and now applied to the future of home care.
The Culmination
Where the Vision Moves Forward
Thanni Holding Corporation
Thanni Holding Corporation is the innovation and commercialization platform through which Thelma’s ideas move from observation and invention toward protected intellectual property, product development and real-world application.
From Idea to Application
- Observe
- Invent
- Protect
- Develop
- Advance
Recognition & Public Voice
Recognized for Innovation, Leadership & Impact
Thelma’s work and leadership have earned recognition across healthcare, professional and media platforms—bringing greater visibility to both her innovation and the larger ideas behind it.
Featured Cover Story
The Prime Today
Most Inspirational Women Personalities of the Year
Health 2.0 Conference · Dubai
Excellence in Healthcare Award
Recognized on a global stage for contributions to the future of healthcare.
Additional Recognition & Features
- Marquis Who's Who
- Who's Who of Professional Women
- Influential Women
- Caribbean Life
Recognition has brought greater visibility to Thelma's work. But the ideas behind that work are what make her a voice worth hearing.
A Distinctive Voice on the Future of Care — and the Power of Innovation at Any Age
From rethinking where essential care happens to challenging assumptions about who gets to innovate, Thelma brings an inventor's perspective shaped by decades of science, entrepreneurship, global experience and lived problem-solving.
Signature Conversations
When Care Forces the Person to Adapt, We May Be Designing It Backwards
— central to The Future of Home Care™
Why some of the most accepted routines in home care deserve to be questioned—and what changes when innovation starts with where the person already is.
The Hidden Cost of Designing Care Around the Task Instead of the Person
— explored through The Dignity Imperative™
Why efficiency alone is an incomplete measure of good care—and why dignity, independence and caregiver realities belong in the design conversation from the beginning.
The Risk of Revealing an Idea Before Its Time
The Visibility Mistake Aspiring Inventors Can Make Too Soon
Why rushing to share a promising idea before understanding protection, confidentiality and professional counsel can create avoidable problems—and what Thelma learned navigating the inventor journey herself.
What We Lose When We Assume Innovation Belongs to the Young
Why accumulated knowledge, lived experience and decades of problem-solving may be among our most overlooked sources of innovation.
Relevant for
Conferences • Podcasts • Panels • Media Interviews • Innovation Conversations
A Different Kind of Second Act
Innovation Has No Age Limit
Experience Isn’t Something to Retire.
It’s Something to Use.
At a stage of life when society often expects people to slow down, Thelma continues to invent, build and imagine what comes next—demonstrating how accumulated knowledge and lived experience can become powerful inputs for innovation.
“Retirement does not mean the end of anything. You look for the next phase.”
Bring a Distinctive Voice to Your Next Conversation.
For Aspiring Inventors
Helping More Ideas Get a Fair Chance to Move Forward
Thelma believes promising ideas shouldn't stall simply because a first-time inventor doesn't know what to do next. Having navigated the journey from idea to protected invention herself, she's committed to helping aspiring inventors become better informed, better prepared and more confident about the questions to ask as they move forward.
What Thelma Can Help You Navigate
Protect Before You Expose
Move forward more confidently by understanding what to consider before publicly sharing your idea—and when to seek qualified professional guidance.
Prepare for the Process
Approach patent professionals, product development and other next steps with better questions, greater clarity and stronger preparation.
Think Beyond the Patent
See the bigger path ahead by considering what it may take to develop, position and ultimately advance your invention.
Learn From an Inventor Who Has Walked the Path.
Thelma shares insights from her personal experience as an inventor and does not provide legal advice. Consult a registered patent attorney or agent regarding your specific intellectual property or legal situation.
Hear the Vision
The Future of Home Care — Explained
A closer look at the thinking behind AidesPro™ and Thelma's vision for bringing more essential care to where the person already is.
The Next Possibility
What Could We Advance Together?
Whether you can help develop, fund, validate, commercialize or amplify the vision, there may be a meaningful role for you in what comes next.
For home-care organizations, product-development partners and aligned innovators ready to move from conversation to commitment.
See a Potential Fit?
Have an Idea You're Ready to Move Forward?
Get inventor-to-inventor perspective to help you approach your next steps with greater clarity and preparation.
The next possibility begins with the right conversation.