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Carolina Del-Valle-Soto, Ramon A. Briseño, Leonardo J. Valdivia, Ramiro Velázquez and Juan Arturo Nolazco-Flores
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are useful in medicine for monitoring the vital signs of elderly patients. These sensors allow for remote monitoring of a patient?s state of health, making it easier for elderly patients, and allowing to avoid or at least t...
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Ye-Jiao Mao, Andy Yiu-Chau Tam, Queenie Tsung-Kwan Shea, Yong-Ping Zheng and James Chung-Wai Cheung
Falls are a major problem in hospitals, and physical or chemical restraints are commonly used to ?protect? patients in hospitals and service users in hostels, especially elderly patients with dementia. However, physical and chemical restraints may be une...
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Zhibin Huang, Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu and Xinwei Yang
Although numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between environmental factors and chronic diseases, there is a lack of comprehensive population health vulnerability assessment studies from the perspective of environmental expos...
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Nazia Ejaz, Saad Jawaid Khan, Fahad Azim, Mehwish Faiz, Emil Teu?an, Alin Ple?a, Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and Sergiu-Dan Stan
Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteoporosis...
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Alexis L. McCreath Frangakis, Edward D. Lemaire and Natalie Baddour
The Timed Up and Go test (TUG) and L Test are functional mobility tests that allow healthcare providers to assess a person?s balance and fall risk. Segmenting these mobility tests into their respective subtasks, using sensors, can provide further and mor...
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Grigorios-Aris Cheimariotis and Nikolaos Mitianoudis
This work describes a methodology for sound event detection in domestic environments. Efficient solutions in this task can support the autonomous living of the elderly. The methodology deals with the ?Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic...
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Yushan Hou, Chang Cai, Houlin Tang, Yichen Jin, Fangfang Chen, Dandan Niu and Fan Lv
Background: The proportion of elderly people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in China. To advance targeted interventions and substantially improve their quality of life, we investigate indicators of loneliness and sexual behavior among elderly PLHI...
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Qiuhu Shao, Junwei Ma and Shiyao Zhu
As the number of elderly continues to increase in China, anxiety about related problems has encouraged special care for the elderly. Social organizations participating in community and home-based elderly care services (SO-CHECS) seem to be a promising wa...
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Hsien-Ming Chou, Shih-Ming Pi and Tsai-Lun Cho
There are many healthcare possibilities for the elderly, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and home-based care. However, in times of COVID-19, most home-based elderly people did not have sufficient supplies or healthcare as usual. Fulfilling their desire...
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Nirmalya Thakur and Chia Y. Han
Falls, highly common in the constantly increasing global aging population, can have a variety of negative effects on their health, well-being, and quality of life, including restricting their capabilities to conduct activities of daily living (ADLs), whi...
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