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October 25, 2015

New Methods to Monitor Stair Ascents Using a Wearable Pendant Device Reveal How Behavior, Fear, and Frailty Influence Falls in Octogenarians

Author(s)3: Matthew A. Brodie, Kejia Wang, Kim Delbaere, Nigel Lovell, Stephen J. Redmond, Michael B. Del Rosario, Stephen R. Lord

New Methods to Monitor Stair Ascents Using a Wearable Pendant Device Reveal How Behavior, Fear, and Frailty Influence Falls in Octogenarians https://www.embs.org/tbme/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2015/10/Wearable01638image_small-Wang.gif 170 177 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) //www.embs.org/tbme/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2022/06/ieee-tbme-logo2x.png October 25, 2015 March 4, 2022

We investigated whether a freely worn pendant inertial sensor, containing a triaxial accelerometer and a barometer, could be used to accurately identify stair ascent by 52 older adults in free…