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Trial reportScientific reports2023

A system for monitoring the functional status of older adults in daily life.

Björn Friedrich, Lena Elgert, Daniel Eckhoff, Jürgen Martin Bauer, Andreas Hein

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Björn FriedrichDepartment of Health Services Research, Carl von Ossietzky University, Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118, 26129, Oldenburg, Lower-Saxony, Germany. bjoern.friedrich@uni-oldenburg.de.
Lena ElgertPeter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hanover Medical School, Karl-Wiechert-Allee 3, 30625, Hanover, Lower-Saxony, Germany.
Daniel EckhoffSchool of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Jürgen Martin BauerGeriatric Centre of the Heidelberg University, University of Heidelberg, Rohrbacher Straße 149, 69126, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Andreas HeinDepartment of Health Services Research, Carl von Ossietzky University, Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118, 26129, Oldenburg, Lower-Saxony, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional decline in older adults can lead to an increased need of assistance or even moving to a nursing home. Utilising home automation, power and wearable sensors, our system continuously keeps track of the functional status of older adults through monitoring their daily life and allows health care professionals to create individualised rehabilitation programmes based on the changes in the older adult's functional capacity and performance in daily life. The system uses the taxonomy of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) by the World Health Organization (WHO). It links sensor data to five ICF items from three ICF categories and measures their change over time. We collected data from 20 (pre-)frail older adults (aged [Formula: see text] 75 years) during a 10-month observational randomised pilot intervention study. The system successfully passed the first pre-clinical validation step on the real-world data of the OTAGO study. Furthermore, an initial test with a medical professional showed that the system is intuitive and can be used to design personalised rehabilitation measures. Since this research is in an early stage further clinical studies are needed to fully validate the system.

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Disability EvaluationPersons with DisabilitiesActivities of Daily LivingAgedFunctional StatusHumansNursing Homes

Identifiers

PMID37524888
PMCPMC10390547

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