Based on this, solutions are developed to prevent older adults from falling. This also includes exercises to stay fit. In addition, they have studied how to encourage older adults to take-up and maintain use of these technologies. Read more on the project.
The FARSEEING booth shall offer a unique, first-hand experience on innovative technologies for detecting, managing and preventing falls. Solutions that shall be showcased at the booth take the form of apps, wearable sensors, web applications and toolkits, exergames, smart-home applications. The project will ensure that the visit to the booth shall be customized to the visitor's profile, be it an older person, a clinician, a stakeholder/investor, or a researcher.
‘There is a general lack of information on why and how falls happen so often in the elderly population,’ says Prof. Chiari (of the University of Bologna, Italy, co-ordinator of the project). ‘This database will, for the first time, enable researchers to study the nature of a fall based on enough objectively measured data.’