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| Acceptance of seniors towards automatic in home fall detection devices | | Author(s) | Florian Feldwieser, Michael Marchollek, Markus Meis |
| Journal title | Journal of Assistive Technologies, vol 10, no 4, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 178-186 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jat.htm |
| Keywords | Falls ; Assistive technology ; Safety devices ; Accident prevention ; Evaluation ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | Falls are one of the highest-cost factors of healthcare within the older population. Various approaches for automatic fall detection exist. However little is known about older people's acceptance of these systems. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the acceptance of automatic fall detection devices as well as the technological commitment and the health status in community-dwelling adults with a predefined risk of falling. Older people with a risk of falling were equipped with either an accelerometer or an accelerometer with an additional visual and optical fall detection system in a sub-group of the study population for a period of eight weeks. Pre- and post-study questionnaires were used to assess attitudes and acceptance towards the technology. In total, 14 subjects with a mean age of 75.1 years completed the study. Acceptance toward all sensors was high and subjects were confident in their ability to handle technology. Medical assessments showed only very mild physical and no mental impairments. Measures that assured subjects' privacy protection were welcomed. Sensor technology was as unobtrusive as possible. Privacy protection and uncomplicated use of the fall detection equipment led to high acceptance by older people with high-technical commitment and good health status. Issues to further improve acceptance could be identified. Future research on different populations is necessary. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170120241 A |
| Classmark | OLF: M: OT: OQ: 4C: DP |
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