Can a Monitoring Device Prevent Falls?
From: Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) - 09/29/2011
By: Geralyn Magan

Vinson Hall Retirement Community, a LeadingAge member in McLean, VA, is
working with AFrame Digital and the University of Virginia’s Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering to test whether continuous monitoring can
help prevent falls in older adults. The study is funded by the National
Institute on Aging. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.leadingage.org/Can_a_Monitoring_Device_Prevent_Falls.aspx

Links:
Vinson Hall Retirement Community
http://www.vinsonhall.org/

AFrame Digital MobileCare Monitor System
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8750265.htm

AFrame Digital
http://www.aframedigital.com/

John Lach
http://www.ece.virginia.edu/~jcl7d/home.html

National Institute on Aging
http://www.nia.nih.gov/

Submitted by Sandy Gabrielli