The elder population are at high risk of having a falling accident. Once it happens, timely
assistance can dramatically reduce the damage. Obviously, real-time and accurate fall …

Accidental falls are common causes of serious injury and health threats in the elder
population. To deliver adequate medical support, the robust and immediate falls detection is …

There has been a considerable increase in the population proportion of senior people
among global population. Fall often happens among these senior people, which is also the …

The number of elderly who live on their own is increasing. Falls in the elderly are a major
problem which has a long term effect. If the elderly can get help immediately after a fall, the …

Elderly people who experience a fall usually need urgent medical attention, as the
consequences can be very serious. The response time in case of a fall can be greatly …

One of the health issues in elderly people is the injury from the fall. Some of these injuries
might lead to deaths. Thus, a good fall detection algorithm is needed to help reducing a …

Fall events are the external causes of injury in the elderly adults, even leading to disability
and death. In this study, we used a weightless and wearable device with built-in tri-axial …

A real-time fall detection system is proposed to distinguish various falls during daily
activities. Falls are detected in two steps: first a hierarchical algorithm is used to classify the …

Falls threaten the health and life safety of the elderly seriously. And timely medical
assistance will help largely to reduce the rate of morbidity-mortality. In this research, a fall …

Falls in elderly people have been recognized as a major health problem in aging
population. This paper describes the development of an accurate, accelerometer based fall …