Innovative study captures real-time data on balance loss in older adults

Partners:

• Michael Madigan, professor with the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech
• Neil Alexander, director, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System GRECC; University of Michigan: Ivan Duff Collegiate Professor of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine; Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology

Real-world insight

• When and where did the balance loss occur? 
• What were they doing at the time? 
• How did they attempt to regain their balance-;did they grab a railing, take steps, or sit down? 
• Why do they think they lost their balance? 
• Did they fall? 

Participant experience

The future of real-world data collection

Source:

Virginia Tech

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