A system for monitoring the functional status of older adults in daily life
Björn Friedrich,
Lena Elgert,
Daniel Eckhoff
et al.
Abstract:Functional decline in older adults can lead to an increased need of assistance or even moving to a nursing home. Utilising home automation, power and wearable sensors, our system continuously keeps track of the functional status of older adults through monitoring their daily life and allows health care professionals to create individualised rehabilitation programmes based on the changes in the older adult’s functional capacity and performance in daily life. The system uses the taxonomy of the International Cla… Show more
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