A Novel System to Detect Falls in Real-life Conditions

BioSensics

Status: Completed

Conditions: Falls

Treatments: Other: Fall Detection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT02835248

15-0930-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medical alert devices with automatic fall detection functionality use accelerometry to detect a fall and can signal for help if the wearer forgets to, or is incapable of, pressing the alert button. This can save lives and prevent complications associated with long periods of time spent on the floor after a fall. In this project, the sensitivity and false alarm rate of a commercially available medical alert device will be tested in a population of 200 community-dwelling older adults.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrolled in the STRIDE Study at the Boston trial site (http://www.stride-study.org/).

Exclusion criteria

• Uses a medical alert device

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

Primary

Description:

Older adult study participants will be recruited from the cohort of participants in the STRIDE Study at the Boston trial site (http://www.stride-study.org/).

Treatment:

Other: Fall Detection