Operationalizing a wireless wearable fall detection sensor for older adults
Tigest Tamrat, Stan Kachnowski, Sonia Rupcic, Margaret Griffin, Tom Taylor Taylor, James Barfield · 2012
Falls are the leading cause of disability and injury- related deaths among older adults, resulting in over 1.6 million annual emergency hospitalizations in the United States. Fall detection devices often rely on dramatized falls when developing algorithms. This study used tri-axial accelerometers wo