Gait Analysis for Identifying Parameters Related to Dementia in Intelligent Environments

Abstract

Gait analysis is one of the ways used to assess the evolution of people with dementia. People with dementia tend to become inactive, especially after changing to a different environment this becomes apparent. For that, it is necessary to monitor the user in an unobtrusive manner and develop algorithms to extract patterns of patients' movements from the data collected by different sensors. Such patterns allow experts to assess the degree of dementia behaviour in the movements of patients.