title: Continuous automated telecare assessment of the elderly.
abstract: An automated scheme is proposed to assess the ability of elderly people to live alone in the community. It employs an Enhanced Activities of Daily Living index based on a computerized questionnaire form. In addition, a number of low-cost sensors have been developed which provide electronic measures of certain activities; these can provide additional inputs to the assessment form using telemetry. The sensors are capable of measuring a wide range of functional performance, thus providing the means of continuously and objectively assessing a patient's condition following hospitalization.
authors.affiliation: Medical Physics and Electronics Unit, University of Wales, Gwynedd, UK. doughty@sees.bangor.oc.uk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Doughty
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000379:methods*; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D013686:Telemetry; D006113:United Kingdom