A review of utility of wearable sensor technologies for older person frailty assessment
- PMID: 39733783
- DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2024.112668
A review of utility of wearable sensor technologies for older person frailty assessment
Abstract
Frailty is one of the most concerning aspects of global population aging, and early identification is crucial to prevent or reverse its progression. Simple, universal, and efficient frailty assessment technologies are essential for the timely detection of frailty in older patients. Various multi-dimensional assessment instruments have been developed to quantify frailty phenotypes; we review the literature on wearable sensor technologies leveraged for older person frailty assessment. This review examines representative studies on older person frailty assessment published up to 2024, summarizing pertinent wearable sensor technologies utilized for frailty assessment. Our findings suggest that objective, simple, rapid, and affordable sensor-based frailty screening holds utility across diverse applications including diagnostic aid, prognostication, and endpoint ascertainment in research.
Keywords: Communication; Frailty assessment; Information; Older person; Sensor.
Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Declaration of competing interest We declare that we have no financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that can inappropriately influence our work, there is no professional or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service and/or company that could be construed as influencing the position presented in, or the review of, the manuscript entitled, “The study of lower limb muscle strength testing in screening for sarcopenia”.
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