Motion tracking sensor to prevent Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease. At present, it has become a major challenge to the global healthcare field, and there is still no effective cure. Now, a researcher from a German multidisciplinary research team has found that a simple motion sensor can track the movement of the elderly's body and its function, so as to discover pathological lesions associated with Alzheimer's disease and detect and diagnose as early as possible. Alzheimer's disease plays an active and effective role.

By placing a tri-axis accelerometer at the ankle of the experimenter, the researchers, like most fitness tracking devices, tracked the daily behavior of potential people with Alzheimer's disease. After analyzing a large number of random motion data, the accuracy of distinguishing Alzheimer's disease from ordinary people was 91%. It seems that for patients with Alzheimer's disease, there are certain rules in the daily behavior and characteristics that can be summed up, so that caregivers and their families can take care more effectively.

Stefan Teipel, a professor at Rostock University, who is responsible for this research topic, said that monitoring environmental sensitivity through Alzheimer's disease patients can give doctors a better way to monitor patients' progress and to take effective measures. treatment. "The data obtained through our research can be very objective, and do not require dedicated personnel to conduct observation and evaluation for 24 hours," he said.

Currently relying on this method to diagnose Alzheimer's disease requires further testing. But if it is really possible to detect such worldwide conditions through wearable devices such as motion tracking devices and detect and prevent it before it develops further, then it may be possible to really reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. .