Falling is among the most damaging event elderly people may experience. With the ever-
growing aging population, there is an urgent need for the development of fall detection …

Human fall is one of the very critical health issues, especially for elders and disabled people
living alone. The number of elder populations is increasing steadily worldwide. Therefore …

This paper makes four scientific contributions to the field of fall detection in the elderly to
contribute to their assisted living in the future of Internet of Things (IoT)-based pervasive …

Falls are a major health problem for the frail community dwelling old people. For more than
two decades, falls have been extensively investigated by medical institutions to mitigate their …

A fall is an abnormal activity that occurs rarely; however, missing to identify falls can have
serious health and safety implications on an individual. Due to the rarity of occurrence of …

Falls and fall-related injuries are major incidents, especially for elderly people, which often
mark the onset of major deterioration of health. More than one-third of home-dwelling people …

This paper presents a new fall detection method of elderly people in a room environment
based on shape analysis of 3D depth images captured by a Kinect sensor. Depth images …

Objective Although several falls risk assessment tools are available, it is unclear which have
been validated and which would be most suitable for primary care practices. This systematic …

Fall events are important health issues in elderly living environments such as homes.
Hence, a confident and real-time video surveillance device that pays attention could better …

Automatic fall detection is an active research area since several years. Basically, this is
motivated by the impact that falls have, in terms of mortality, morbidity, and social costs …