Consumer-Grade Wearable Device for Predicting Frailty in Canadian Home Care Service Clients: Prospective Observational Proof-of-Concept Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty has detrimental health impacts on older home care clients and is associated with increased hospitalization and long-term care admission. The prevalence of frailty among home care clients is poorly understood and ranges from 4.0% to 59.1%. Although frailty screening tools exist, their inconsistent use in practice calls for more innovative and easier-to-use tools. Owing to increases in the capacity of wearable devices, as well as in technology literacy and adoption in Canadian older adults, wearable devices are emerging as a viable tool to assess frailty in this population.

Objective

The objective of this study was to prove that using a wearable device for assessing frailty in older home care clients could be possible.

Methods

From June 2018 to Septem

SUBMITTER: Kim B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7499164 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature