When an older person is injured in a fall, the cost is significant, both in quality of life and medical expense.
Wireless body sensor networks that monitor gait, being developed by University of Virginia researchers, could offer a solution on both fronts.
A new consortium of researchers from U.Va.'s School of Engineering, School of Medicine and Department of Psychology, in partnership with the U.Va. Institute on Aging's Translational Research Consortium and AFrame Digital, Inc., a health monitoring and medical alert products company, will soon be providing the wearable sensors to residents of some area long-term care facilities….
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