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A Review of Activity Trackers for Senior Citizens: Research Perspectives, Commercial Landscape and the Role of the Insurance Industry.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Digital Health Interventions to Promote Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Semiquantitative Analysis.International journal of public health · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Physical Activity.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled it
- Continuous home monitoring of Parkinson's disease using inertial sensors: A systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- A Systematic Review on the Use of Wearable Body Sensors for Health Monitoring: A Qualitative Synthesis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
- Wearable Inertial Sensors to Assess Standing Balance: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Pooled it
- Accuracy of consumer-level and research-grade activity trackers in ambulatory settings in older adults.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Social factors, wearable activity tracker use frequency, and physical activity patterns among U.S. older adults: findings from a national cross-sectional survey.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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- Low-Cost AI-Enabled Optoelectronic Wearable for Gait and Breathing Monitoring: Design, Validation, and Applications.Biosensors · 2025Article
- Association between wrist-worn free-living accelerometry and hand grip strength in middle-aged and older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2024Article
- Navigating Through Innovation in Elderly's Health: A Scoping Review of Digital Health Interventions.Public health reviews · 2024Article
- Electronic Wearable Device Use for Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Qualitative Study.Work, aging and retirement · 2024Article
- Usability of a new digital walking program for older adults: a pilot study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
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- Benefits of a Wearable Activity Tracker with Safety Features for Older Adults: An Intervention Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Accuracy of Commercially Available Fitness Trackers in Patients after Stroke.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Associations of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Cognitive Characteristics With Mobile Health Access: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Observational
- Possibilities and limits of using gyroscopic sensors in the diagnosis of progression of osteoarthritis and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2022Article
- Remote Healthcare for Elderly People Using Wearables: A Review.Biosensors · 2022Review
- Manufacturing worker perceptions of using wearable inertial sensors for multiple work shifts.Applied ergonomics · 2022Article
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Abstract
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 environments is a well-known research area in the literature. However, their application to older adults can present particular constraints. This paper reviews the adoption of wearable devices in senior citizens by describing various researches for monitoring physical activity indicators, such as energy expenditure, posture transitions, activity classification, fall detection and prediction, gait and balance analysis, also by adopting consumer-grade fitness trackers with the associated limitations regarding acceptability. This review also describes and compares existing commercial products encompassing activity trackers tailored for older adults, thus providing a comprehensive outlook of the status of commercially available motion tracking systems. Finally, the impact of wearable devices on life and health insurance companies, with a description of the potential benefits for the industry and the wearables market, was analyzed as an example of the potential emerging market drivers for such technology in the future.
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