Wearable sensor-based in-home assessment of gait, balance, and physical activity for discrimination of frailty status: Baseline results of the Arizona frailty cohort study

Gerontology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 258-267

  Schwenk, Michael ^a,b   Mohler, Jane ^a,b,c   Wendel, Christopher ^a,b   D'Huyvetter, Karen ^a,b   Fain, Mindy ^a,b   Taylor Piliae, Ruth ^a,b,c   Najafi, Bijan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Frailty; Monitoring; Physical activity; Physical function; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAGNETOMETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SENSOR; SITTING; STANDING; WALKING; AGING; ARIZONA; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARIZONA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; WALKING;

EID: 84929027995     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000369095     Document Type: Article

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