Assessing physical activity in older adults: Required days of trunk accelerometer measurements for reliable estimation

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-17

  Van Schooten, Kimberley S ^a   Rispens, Sietse M ^a   Elders, Petra J M ^b   Lips, Paul ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a   Pijnappels, Mirjam ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Ambulatory monitoring; Amount of physical activity; Day to day variation; Trunk actigraphy

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVICES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NETHERLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84920262914     PISSN: 10638652     EISSN: 1543267X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/JAPA.2013-0103     Document Type: Article

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