High-Accuracy Indoor Positioning and Smart Home Technologies for Assessing and Monitoring Frailty in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: Frailty assessment and monitoring are essential for supporting independent living and preventing adverse outcomes among older adults. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the concurrent validity of a high-accuracy home-monitoring system for assessing and tracking frailty in older adults. The system integrated off-the-shelf, zero-effort technologies, including ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor positioning, a smart scale, a connected hand dynamometer, and a Bluetooth speakerphone, to measure the five components of Fried's Frailty Phenotype criteria. Twenty-one participants (aged 21-90 years) completed frailty assessments using both traditional clinical measures and the sensor-based system within a simulated home environment within a major rehabilitation hospital. The developed system demonstra

SUBMITTER: Miguel Cruz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12787328 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature