A prospective field study for sensor-based identification of fall risk in older people with dementia

Abstract

We concluded that it is possible to classify gait episodes of fallers and non-fallers in people with dementia during everyday life using accelerometry.

Gait parameters and characteristics associated with increased risk of falls in people with dementia: a systematic review

“…See Appendix A1 published as supplementary material online attached to the electronic version of this paper at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-psychogeriatrics. Ten articles met the inclusion criteria (Camicioli and Licis, 2004;Eriksson et al, 2008;Allan et al, 2009;Pellfolk et al, 2009;, Taylor et al, 2012Schwenk et al, 2014;Gietzelt et al, 2014). Figure 1 shows a flow diagram of the article selection process.…”

“…The studies in this review represent 1026 older adults with dementia. Sample sizes ranged from 40 (Gietzelt et al, 2014) to 174 (Taylor et al, 2014). Gender composition was more skewed towards females in seven of the 10 studies (Camicioli and Licis, 2004;Eriksson et al, 2008;Pellfolk et al, 2009;Sterke et al, 2012;Taylor et al, 2012Taylor et al, , 2014, with the highest number of female participation at 86% (Camicioli and Licis, 2004).…”

“…One study did not report the gender composition (Sterke et al, 2012). The mean age range of participants was 76 (+/-8.3) (Gietzelt et al, 2014) to 83 (+/-9.57) years (Camicioli and Licis, 2004). See Table 2 for full study details.…”

“…In addition to risk estimates, three studies also determined the psychometric properties of tools used to quantify gait for future fall risk (Sterke et al, , 2012Schwenk et al, 2014). One study only determined the psychometric properties of the tools that were used to quantify gait for future falls (Gietzelt et al, 2014). See Table 3 for full details.…”

“…In two studies, the method of diagnosis was not stated (Pellfolk et al, 2009;Gietzelt et al, 2014) and in two it was not clear whether all participants had a formal diagnosis by a specialist clinician (Taylor et al, 2012(Taylor et al, , 2014. A variety of scales were used to ascertain the severity of dementia with the most common being the Mini-Mental State Examination (Camicioli and Licis, 2004;Eriksson et al, 2008;Allan et al, 2009;Taylor et al, 2012Taylor et al, , 2014Gietzelt et al, 2014).…”