Building a Home That Helps Residents Stay Healthy From: ECN Magazine - 02/14/2017 University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning Associate Professor Joe Colistra explained that the idea of a floor that could monitor heel strikes "can tell if someone has fallen, if there is a stutter in their step that is a precursor of Alzheimer's disease. These are not your normal sensors, but ones sensitive enough to use predictive algorithms on. They would be most useful to seniors, so we are working with scientists at the Landon Center on Aging at the (University of Kansas) Medical Center who work on Alzheimer's disease. They can already do gait analysis with a device like a Fitbit, but this would be in the background. You would not have to turn it on. The monitor would be in the floor. It's an accelerometer, linked to GPS. There could be smart mirrors, smart toilets." Smart mirrors, he explained, look for changes in the skin - moles, lesions, the effects of stroke. Smart toilets monitor hydration and evacuation. Read the entire article at: https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2017/02/building-home-helps-residents-stay-healthy http://news.ku.edu/2017/02/10/building-home-helps-residents-stay-healthy Link: Joe Colistra https://architecture.ku.edu/joe-colistra https://cdr.ku.edu/joe-colistra