Abstract
A leading cause of physical injury sustained by elderly persons is the event of unintentionally falling onto a hard surface. Approximately 32-42% of those 70 and over fall at least once each year, and those who live in assisted living facilities fall with greater frequency per year than those who live in residential communities. Delay between the time of fall and the time of medical attention can exacerbate injury if the fall resulted in concussion, traumatic brain injury, or bone fracture. Several implementations of mobile, wireless, wearable, low-power fall detection sensors (FDS) have become commercially available. These devices are typically worn around the neck as a pendant, or on the wrist, as a watch is worn. Based on features collected from IMU sensors placed at sixteen body locations, and used to train four different machine learning models, our findings show the optimal placement for an FDS on the body is in front of the shinbone.
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