Near-falls and falls detection system

老年人经常摔倒。福尔斯对老年人的生活质量和他们能够独自生活有影响。福尔斯导致85%的加拿大老年人受伤住院，90%的髋部骨折，40%的养老院安置。本研究旨在建立一套“近福尔斯”与“福尔斯”侦测系统。“该系统由老年人佩戴，并收集有关该人的数据。然后，医生和其他人可以使用这些数据来评估即将摔倒（几乎摔倒）或摔倒。能够正确地检测到几乎福尔斯是重要的，原因有几个：（1）随着时间的推移，许多几乎福尔斯会增加老年人的跌倒风险;（2）知道当老年人几乎福尔斯跌倒时会发生什么，为医生和其他人提供关键数据，以防止未来的严重跌倒;以及（3）评估几乎跌倒和跌倒的方法依赖于能够回忆事件的人。加拿大人越来越老了。研究结果将在预防和治疗福尔斯、提高生活质量、减少伤害和死亡等领域的老年人护理中发挥作用，并可能导致更少的医院就诊、更少的残疾老年人和节省医疗保健费用。

Older adults often fall. Falls have an effect on seniors' quality of life and them being able to live alone. Falls cause 85% of all injuries that send Canadian seniors to the hospital and 90% of all hip fractures; and, result in 40% of nursing home placements. The purpose of this research is to build a "near-falls and falls detection system." The system is worn by an older adult and collects data about the person. Doctors and others can then use the data to assess a near fall (an almost fall) or fall. Being able to correctly detect near falls is important for a few reasons: (1) many almost falls over time raises an older adult's fall risk; (2) knowing what happens when a senior almost falls gives doctors and others key data to prevent a future serious fall; and, (3) ways of assessing an almost fall and fall rely on the person being able to recall the event. Canadians are getting older. The research results will play a role in the care of older adults in the areas of preventing and treating falls, improving quality of life, and decreasing injuries and death, and may result in less hospital visits, fewer disabled seniors, and health care cost savings.