A smartphone-based solution to monitor daily physical activity in a care home.

Pieter JoosenDeborah Piette Joren BuekersJoachim TaelmanDaniel BerckmansPatrick De Boever

Published in: Journal of telemedicine and telecare (2018)

This study demonstrates that an mHealth system can be implemented in a care home setting to motivate activity of the elderly, and that the bio-data can be translated in a fitness score predicting the outcome of labour-intensive tests.

Keyphrases

physical activity
healthcare
palliative care
quality improvement
affordable care act
body mass index
pain management
big data
middle aged
chronic pain
depressive symptoms
health insurance
deep learning
artificial intelligence