Dan Bowman, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Researchers at the University of South Carolina have developed a new program to aid in fall prevention for the elderly. It uses sensors originally designed to monitor bridge safety and an algorithm to detect vibrations associated with movement, according to an article on the school’s website.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctor
“Detectar el nivel de azúcar en el aliento, un sistema que avisa a tu médico si no te tomas las pastillas, detectores de caídas… Aún son prototipos, pero avanzan el futuro de las alertas de salud en enfermos y personas dependientes.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Motion-sensing technology found in devices like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 are effective at detecting the early onset of illness and fall risk in seniors, according to research from the University of Missouri.
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Barbara Ficarra, KevinMD
“The conundrum continued behind conference doors at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference in Tampa about the efficacy of mobile phone usage to improve patient health.
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Yamada M et al, Age and Ageing, 40(4)
Sir—Falls are relatively common among older people; ∼30% of 65-year-old community-dwelling adults experience at least one fall per year. Of these falls, 6% result in fractures. Falls typically occur during locomotion; therefore, previous studies have focused on identifying the changes in locomotor performance which occur with increasing age.
In every-day life, locomotion typically occurs under complicated circumstances with cognitive attention focused on other tasks. Lundin-Olsson et al. reported a novel method for predicting falls based on the dual-task (DT) performance of subjects. In recent years, numerous studies have evaluated DT walking in elderly people. However, Beauchet et al. reported that reliable conclusions cannot be drawn from the prediction of falls based on DT results due to the lack of standardisation in DT paradigms. We considered that the two main limitations of the previous research using DT protocols were: (i) insufficient evaluation of the performance of the secondary task and (ii) the lack of standardisation of the DT protocols.
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Barbara Ficarra, Health in 30
“The conundrum continued behind conference doors last week at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference in Tampa about the efficacy of mobile phone usage to improve patient health.
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“Approximately one-third of all falls taken by seniors require medical treatment, and 10 percent eventually lead to death.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Falls are one of the greatest risks to maintaining good health for millions of elderly Americans living at home today. “Falls Among the Elderly: Key is Prevention, Not Detection” is the featured topic of the newest installment of The Home Telehealth Community of Care web page at www.informationfortomorrow.com/community. This web page helps healthcare providers and family members find much needed information on developing tools and applications to prevent falls among the elderly.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Italian researchers have developed a new wearable wireless sensor to monitor, detect and help prevent whether a person has suffered a fall.
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eHealthNews.EU
“Falls are the main cause of injuries among elderly people, but until now doctors have had few ways of effectively monitoring and counteracting mobility problems among patients. Work by European researchers is set to change that.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Telefónica has developed a home monitoring system that can collect five different vital signs, detects falls and transmit data to a caretaker centre to be assessed by doctors.
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Telecare Aware
“What may be a significant step towards the “Holy Grail” of universal fall detection is myHalo Clip from Halo Monitoring. This an accelerometer that dispenses with conventional tilt sensors, instead using solid state sensors and motion signal processing.
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