Analysis of activities of daily living in elderly people living alone: single-subject feasibility study.
We have developed an automatic remote system for use in monitoring the health of independent elderly people living in conventional homes. In this study, a monitoring system was installed and evaluated in the house of one subject to test the feasibility of determining activities from sensor outputs. Over a period of 6 months, it was found that total counts from all sensor outputs matched the concurrently acquired data on physical activity obtained from a pedometer. Performance of each basic activity of daily living could be confirmed from the sensor output records.
Suzuki
Ryoji
R
Rehabilitation Medicine for the Physically Disabled Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku Universitiy, Japan. ryo-suzuki@biglobe.ne.jp
Ogawa
Mitsuhiro
M
Otake
Sakuto
S
Izutsu
Takeshi
T
Tobimatsu
Yoshiko
Y
Izumi
Shin-Ichi
S
Iwaya
Tsutomu
T
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D003625:Data Collection; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*