Mobility-Based Smartphone Digital Phenotypes for Unobtrusively Capturing Everyday Cognition, Mood, and Community Life-Space in Older Adults: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Validity Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current methods of monitoring cognition in older adults are insufficient to address the growing burden of Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). New approaches that are sensitive, scalable, objective, and reflective of meaningful functional outcomes are direly needed. Mobility trajectories and geospatial life space patterns reflect many aspects of cognitive and functional integrity and may be useful proxies of age-related cognitive decline.

Objective

We investigated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary validity of a 1-month smartphone digital phenotyping protocol to infer everyday cognition, function, and mood in older adults from passively obtained GPS data. We also sought to clarify intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with mobility

SUBMITTER: Hackett K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11624463 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature