FARSEEING has been recently selected by the European Commission as one of the top 3 most influential and high-impact projects of the last 11 years in the field of ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing, and the most successful consortium leading to ground breaking results to improve the understanding and management of falls! Excellent performance […]
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Natural turn measures predict recurrent falls in community-dwelling older adults: a longitudinal cohort study
Farseeing are still publishing work, please see our latest paper about predicting falls and turning. Although turning has been reported as one of the leading activities performed during a fall, and falls during turning result in 8-times more hip fractures than falls during linear gait, the quantity and quality of turns resulting in falls remain […]
FARSEEING DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY SHORTLISTED FOR THE INNOVATION RADAR PRIZE
mHealth Technologies the spin-off company from the University of Bologna and the FARSEEING project have been nominated for an Innovation Radar Prize for the apps developed as part of the FARSEEING project! To find out more and to vote please go to : https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/innovators/mhealth-technologies-innovation-radar
Partners publish on the FARSEEING taxonomy in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Farseeing partners publish in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics about the FARSEEING taxonomy: Abstract BACKGROUND: Recent Cochrane reviews on falls and fall prevention have shown that it is possible to prevent falls in older adults living in the community and in care facilities. Technologies aimed at fall detection, assessment, prediction and prevention are emerging, yet […]