Our colleague and a close friend of the FARSEEING project, Professor Meg Morris from the University of Melbourne has let us share her recent systematic literature review of smart technologies that promote health and well-being for older people. MORRIS-Smart-technologies-for-older-people (MEG2)
Archive | Falls and technology related publications
An instrumented timed up and go: the added value of an accelerometer for identifying fall risk in idiopathic fallers.
A, Herman T, Plotnik M, Brozgol M, Giladi N, Hausdorff JM. Physiological Measurement, December 2011, vol./is. 32/12(2003-18), 0967-3334;1361-6579 (2011 Dec). Abstract: The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is a widely used measure of mobility and fall risk among older adults that is typically scored using a stopwatch. We tested the hypothesis that a body-fixed […]
Falls in advanced old age: recalled falls and prospective follow-up of over-90-year-olds in the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort study.
Fleming, J. Matthews, F. Brayne, C. The Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study collaboration. BMC Geriatr. 2008; 8: 6. Published online 2008 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-8-6 Abstract The “oldest old” are now the fastest growing section of most western populations, yet there are scarcely any data concerning even the common problem of falls amongst the very […]
Definitions and methods of measuring and reporting on injurious falls in randomised controlled fall prevention trials: a systematic review
Schwenk, M. Lauenroth, A. Stock, C. Moreno, R.R. Oster, P. McHugh, G. Todd, C. Hauer, C. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012, 12:50 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-12-50 Abstract Background The standardisation of the assessment methodology and case definition represents a major precondition for the comparison of study results and the conduction of meta-analyses. International guidelines provide recommendations for the standardisation of falls methodology; however, […]
