A pilot observational study of gait changes over time before and after an unplanned hospital visit in long-term care residents with dementia.

Background: Older adults with dementia living in long-term care (LTC) have high rates of hospitalization. Two common causes of unplanned hospital visits for LTC residents are deterioration in health status and falls. Early detection of health deterioration or increasing falls risk may present an opportunity to intervene and prevent hospitalization.

Walking path images from real-time location data predict degree of cognitive impairment.

Background: We propose a novel approach that uses spatial walking patterns produced by real-time location systems to classify the severity of cognitive impairment (CI) among residents of a memory care unit.

Methods: Each participant was classified as "No-CI", "Mild-Moderate CI" or "Severe CI" based on their Mini-Mental State Examination scores. The location data was distributed into windows of various durations (5, 10, 15 and 30 min) and transformed into images used to train a custom convolutional neural network (CNN) at each window size.

Indoor Location Data for Tracking Human Behaviours: A Scoping Review.

Real-time location systems (RTLS) record locations of individuals over time and are valuable sources of spatiotemporal data that can be used to understand patterns of human behaviour. Location data are used in a wide breadth of applications, from locating individuals to contact tracing or monitoring health markers. To support the use of RTLS in many applications, the varied ways location data can describe patterns of human behaviour should be examined.

Error Augmentation in Immersive Virtual Reality for Bimanual Upper-Limb Rehabilitation in Individuals With and Without Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy.

With more readily available commercial immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies, the potential of new feedback strategies as tools to facilitate motor rehabilitation should be investigated. Augmented feedback or error augmentation (EA) can easily be shown in a virtual environment. Here, visual EA provided via immersive VR was tested for its effectiveness to improve bimanual symmetry in a reaching task.