Falls management: Detection and prevention, using a waist-mounted triaxial accelerometer

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4037-4040

  Narayanan, Michael R ^a,b   Lord, Steven R ^b,c   Budge, Marc M ^d   Celler, Branko G ^a,b   Lovell, Nigel H ^a,b,e  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALLS MANAGEMENT; WAIST-MOUNTED TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; TELEMETRY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 57649225927     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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