Title :
Playful home training for falls prevention
Author :
Jessen, Jari Due ; Lund, Henrik Hautop
Author_Institution :
Center for Playware, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
Falling is a big issue among elderly, and prevention of falling is of big importance both for the individual and for society at large. In this paper we present a pilot study with fun exergaming equipment in private homes. The initial findings in the small pilot study suggests that this kind of training makes the elderly train more than they normally do, and they continue to find the training fun for up to 70 training times. Such motivation to train this much is important to understand, since studies of elderly people´s barriers to exercises indicate that motivation can be one of the very common barriers. Further, the paper describes how future research within the field will be structured.
Keywords :
computer based training; geriatrics; home computing; medical computing; elderly people exercise barrier; elderly people training; exergaming equipment; fall prevention; playful home training; private home; Color; Games; Interviews; Mechatronics; Senior citizens; Sensors; Training; Elderly; exergame; home exercise; mechatronic; playware;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Busan
DOI :
10.1109/AIM.2015.7222550