Elderly frailty detection by using accelerometer-enabled smartphones and clinical information records

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1073-1083

  Fontecha, Jesús ^a   Navarro, Fco Javier ^b   Hervás, Ramón ^a   Bravo, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Residencia Asistida de Ancianos   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Elderly; Frailty; Healthcare; Mobile computing

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL INFORMATION; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; ELDERLY; FRAILTY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL EXERCISE;

ACCELEROMETERS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84883446692     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-012-0559-5     Document Type: Article

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