Near-falls and falls detection system

老年人经常摔倒。跌倒会影响老年人的生活质量和他们独自生活的能力。在加拿大老年人住院的所有伤害中，摔伤占85%，髋部骨折占90%；40%的人在养老院实习。这项研究的目的是建立一个“近坠落和坠落检测系统”。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数据来评估差点摔倒（差点摔倒）或摔倒。能够正确地发现临近跌倒是很重要的，原因如下：(1)随着时间的推移，许多差点跌倒会增加老年人跌倒的风险；(2)了解老年人差点摔倒时会发生什么，为医生和其他人提供关键数据，以防止未来严重摔倒；(3)评估“差点摔倒”和“差点摔倒”的方法依赖于被试者能否回忆起事件。加拿大人正在变老。研究结果将在预防和治疗跌倒、提高生活质量、减少伤害和死亡等方面对老年人的护理发挥作用，并可能减少住院次数、减少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.