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Multi-Day Longitudinal Assessment Of Physical Activity And Sleep Behavior Among Healthy Young And Older Adults Using Wearable Sensors, Rahul Soangra
Multi-Day Longitudinal Assessment Of Physical Activity And Sleep Behavior Among Healthy Young And Older Adults Using Wearable Sensors, Rahul Soangra
Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research
Objectives
The number of elderly people is growing rapidly and aging is found to affect activities of daily living. Older adults are found to perform less physical activity when compared to younger ones. In the perspective of movement behavior, it is not well understood how are elderly different from younger ones. It is not known whether they produce only low frequency movement accelerations or the overall number of movements produced are reduced in elderly. It is also not known how elderly and younger ones perform movement transitions throughout the duration of a day and during night-time sleep.
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