Peter A Lichtenberg, Vanessa Rorai, Emily V Flores
A person-centered approach to financial capacity: early memory loss, financial management and decision-making
Aging & mental health
increasingly aging society consequently rising number patients poststrokerelated neurological dysfunctions forcing rehabilitation field adapt evergrowing demands although clinical reasoning within rehabilitation dependent patient movement performance analysis current strategies monitoring rehabilitation progress based subjective timeconsuming assessment scales often applied therefore need exists efficient nonsubjective monitoring methods wearable monitoring devices rapidly becoming recognized option rehabilitation quantitative measures developments sensors embedded technology smart textile driving rehabilitation adopt objective seamless efficient costeffective delivery system study aims assist physiotherapists clinical reasoning process incorporation accelerometers part electronic data acquisition system simple lowcost wearable device poststroke rehabilitation progress monitoring developed based commercially available inertial sensors accelerometry data acquisition performed 4 firsttime poststroke patients reachpressreturn task preliminary studies revealed acceleration profiles stroke patients possible quantitatively assess functional movement identify compensatory strategies help define proper movement inertial data acquisition system designed developed lowcost option monitoring rehabilitation device seeks ease datagathering process physiotherapists complement current practices accelerometry profiles aid development quantifiable methodologies protocols