Gait analysis using wearable sensors is an inexpensive, convenient, and efficient manner of
providing useful information for multiple health-related applications. As a clinical tool applied …

Background: Falls represent a significant threat to the health and independence of adults
aged 65 years and older. As a wide variety and large number of passive monitoring systems …

Falls and fall related injuries are a significant cause of morbidity, disability, and health care
utilization, particularly among the age group of 65 years and over. The ability to detect falls …

Automated methods of real-time, unobtrusive, human ambulation, activity, and wellness
monitoring and data analysis using various algorithmic techniques have been subjects of …

Purpose: To obtain insight into what kind of monitoring technologies exist to monitor activity
in-home, what the characteristics and aims of applying these technologies are, what kind of …

The objective assessment of physical activity levels through wearable inertial-based motion
detectors for the automatic, continuous and long-term monitoring of people in free-living …

Falls are considered the main cause of fear and loss of independence among the elderly
population and are also a major cause of morbidity, disability and health care utilization. In …

PURPOSE: This paper describes proposed health care services innovations, provided by a
system called CAALYX (Complete Ambient Assisted Living eXperiment). CAALYX aimed to …

As we grow old, our desire for being independence does not decrease while our health
needs to be monitored more frequently. Accidents such as falling can be a serious problem …

This paper presents a pervasive fall detection system on smart phones which can monitor
the elderly activities and identifies the occurrence of falls. The proposed pervasive fall …