ACCELEROMETRY-BASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (MIMS/DAY) AND FALL RISK APPRAISAL MATRIX IN OLDER ADULTS
Renoa Choudhury, Joon-Hyuk Park, Chitra Banarjee, David Fukuda, Rui Xie, Jeffrey Stout, Ladda Thiamwong · 2023
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Renoa Choudhury and six co-authors wrote a 2023 study on how daily movement differs across fall-risk profiles in older adults. The Fall Risk Appraisal Matrix sorts people by two things: how much they fear falling, and how good their balance actually is. Mismatches between fear and balance are clinically telling, but their link to real activity was unmeasured.
Wrist accelerometers recorded movement in 156 community-dwelling adults averaging about 77 years old. Activity was summarized as total daily movement and as the peak thirty minutes, both in device-independent units. Balance came from a balance platform test and fear from a standard questionnaire. Four groups emerged: rational, incongruent, irrational, and congruent, in the matrix's terms. Statistical tests compared activity across them. The study ties objective movement to how risk is appraised.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Renoa Choudhury, Joon-Hyuk Park, Chitra Banarjee, David Fukuda, Rui Xie, Jeffrey Stout, Ladda Thiamwong |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |