Our aging society claims for innovative tools to early detect symptoms of cognitive decline.
Several research efforts are being made to exploit sensorized smart-homes and artificial …

Wandering is one of the most frequent, problematic, and injurious behaviors of elderly
people with dementia. It often leads to negative consequences such as falling and getting …

Ambulation is defined by duration, distance traversed, number and size of directional
changes, and the interval separating successive movement episodes; more complex …

The rapid increase in the senior population is posing serious challenges to national
healthcare systems. Hence, innovative tools are needed to early detect health issues …

Significant number of people with dementia are at risk of wandering and getting lost. These
individuals may get hurt, cause distress to families and caregivers, and require costly search …

Our ageing world population claims for innovative tools to support healthcare and
independent living. In this article, we address this challenge by introducing a novel system to …

OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that variability in voluntary movement paths of assisted
living facility (ALF) residents would be greater in the week preceding a fall compared with …

Objective: Aimless movement or wandering may be a symptom of mild cognitive impairment
(MCI) that arises as a consequence of confusion and forgetfulness. This paper presents a …

The aim of this study is to describe the process of staff and patient adoption and compliance
of a real-time locating system (RTLS) across two health care settings and present lessons …

Following years of restricted military applications, recently unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
also known as drones have become the new disruptive force in many industrial and …