Why the study?
Can an ambulatory acceleration monitor effectively measure and differentiate daily physical activity patterns in elderly women?
Can an ambulatory acceleration monitor effectively measure and differentiate daily physical activity patterns in elderly women?
An ambulatory acceleration monitor is an effective method for quantitatively and objectively describing the characteristic physical activities of the elderly.
Wrist acceleration monitoring may support objective activity assessment in elderly women; leaves open the need for larger prospective validation before clinical use.
An ambulatory acceleration monitor was developed and used to evaluate physical activity in the elderly. The ECG and accelerations at the wrist, waist, and ankle were recorded, and the heart rate and frequency and amplitude of accelerations per unit time were evaluated in both working and retired elderly women performing normal daily activities. The heart rate closely paralleled wrist acceleration. The behaviour patterns of the subjects could be differentiated by time interval signals and histogram distributions. This system appears to be an effective method of understanding and describing the characteristic activities of the elderly in a quantitative and objective fashion.
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