Feasibility and acceptability of a continuous remote activity monitoring protocol in older adult dyads: A mixed methods pilot study
Ríona Mc Ardle, Jenny L Wales, Calum Alexander Hamilton, Leigh James Ryan, Louis McCarthy, Silvia Del Din, Sayeh Bayat, Gro Gujord Tangen, Neil Ireson, Vita Lanfranchi, Nicolas Farina, Ben Hicks · 2025
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Riona Mc Ardle and colleagues piloted a week-long home monitoring plan for older couples, aimed at learning how partners shape each other's walking habits. Walking supports healthy aging and may lower dementia risk, yet most studies track people alone. Writing in twenty twenty-five, the team asked pairs of older adults to wear a motion sensor on the lower back and carry a phone with a location app when out. Each night, participants kept a diary of trips and reasons. Afterward, they described the experience in open questionnaires.
Nearly all volunteers wore the sensor for the full week, and everyone kept the diary. Location data were captured for about three quarters of study days, lost mainly to technical errors or days spent at home. Most found the routine acceptable. The authors judge the toolkit workable for larger studies of shared walking.
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| CREATOR | Ríona Mc Ardle, Jenny L Wales, Calum Alexander Hamilton, Leigh James Ryan, Louis McCarthy, Silvia Del Din, Sayeh Bayat, Gro Gujord Tangen, Neil Ireson, Vita Lanfranchi, Nicolas Farina, Ben Hicks |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |