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Elderly care is one of the important issues in the medical mature of the time facing all over the world. Currently, the paper-based testing and recording methods are commonly used in various care centers which not only waste manpower but also may cause mistakes with different social workers in assessment. This study aims at measuring the cognitive function of elderly by the empirical research approach...
In this study, we intend to investigate the elderly's feedback towards the usability of commercial games and a physical activity game developed by our project collaborator, Puuha Group, Finland. We conducted a pilot usability testing of interactive physical activity games with two groups of elderly who are moderately active and less active in their daily lives. We used commercially available Xbox...
Falls in the elderly have a profound impact on their quality of life through injury, increased fear of falling, reduced confidence to perform daily tasks and loss of independence. Falls come at a substantial economic cost. Tools to quantify falls risk and evaluate functional deficits allow interventions to be targeted to those at increased risk of falling and tailored to correct deficits with the...
Unobtrusive in-home computer monitoring could one day be used to deliver cost-effective diagnostic information about the cognitive abilities of the elderly. This could allow for early detection of cognitive impairment and would additionally be coupled with the cost advantages that are associated with a semi-automated system. Before using the computer usage data to draw conclusions about the participants,...
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