Body and Brain Training for Falls Prevention

DOI

10.2991/jrnal.k.200909.008How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Playware; gaming; aging; falls prevention

Abstract

The paper presents the pilot test of the Moto Tiles Body & Brain Test combined with automatically generated individualized training protocols. The test is performed with seniors (avg. 80 years old) with mild dementia in senior care centers in Roskilde, Denmark. The seniors performed pre- and post-test on tests correlated with timed-up-and-go, chair-to-stand, and four square stepping test. During the intervention, the dementia-affected seniors performed their individualized training on the Moto Tiles games over 3 weeks with an average total of nine sessions of 7 min each. On average, the seniors improve 41%, 31%, 42% and 3% on the four tests. In terms of cut-points for multiple falls risk, the seniors are at high risk at pre-test, while they are at low risk at post-test. This indicates that the very short time (1 h over 3 weeks) playful training on Moto Tiles can potentially bring seniors from high risk of falling to a much lower risk of falling. The present study is a small pilot test, and results should be verified in randomized controlled trial(s).

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© 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press B.V.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Henrik Hautop Lund
AU  - Yan-Xin Liu
AU  - Massimiliano Leggieri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/14
TI  - Body and Brain Training for Falls Prevention
JO  - Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
SP  - 179
EP  - 183
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
SN  - 2352-6386
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.200909.008
DO  - 10.2991/jrnal.k.200909.008
ID  - Lund2020
ER  -