title: Increasing fall risk awareness using wearables: A fall risk awareness protocol.
abstract: Each year about a third of elderly aged 65 or older experience a fall. Many of these falls may have been avoided if fall risk assessment and prevention tools where available in a daily living situation. We identify what kind of information is relevant for doing fall risk assessment and prevention using wearable sensors in a daily living environment by investigating current research, distinguishing between prospective and context-aware fall risk assessment and prevention. Based on our findings, we propose a fall risk awareness protocol as a fall prevention tool integrating both wearables and ambient sensing technology into a single platform.
authors.affiliation: UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. Electronic address: Asbjorn.Danielsen@uit.no.
authors.forename: Asbjørn
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Danielsen
authors.affiliation: UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. Electronic address: Hans.Olofsen@uit.no.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Olofsen
authors.affiliation: UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. Electronic address: BerntArild.Bremdal@uit.no.
authors.forename: Bernt Arild
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Bremdal
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D000076251:Wearable Electronic Devices
keywords: Daily living; Fall prevention; Fall prevention tool; Fall risk assessment; Fall risk awareness protocol; Sensor fusion; Wearable sensors