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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Majd Alwan, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Robin A. Felder, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Steven W. Kell, Keswick, VA (US);
Sarah G. Wood, Lovingston, VA (US);
Michael Cvetanovich, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Beverly L. Turner, North Garden, VA (US);
J. William Holman, Earlysville, VA (US);
University of Virgina Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Abstract
A method and related system to, among other things, automatically infer answers to all of the ADL questions and the first four questions of the IADL in the home. The inference methods detect the relevant activities unobtrusively, continuously, accurately, objectively, quantifiably and without relying on the patient's own memory (which may be fading due to aging or an existing health condition, such as Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)) or on a caregiver's subjective report. The methods rely on the judicious placement of a number of sensors in the subject's place of residence, including motion detection sensors in every room, the decomposition of each relevant activity into the sub-tasks involved, identification of additional sensors required to detect the relevant sub-tasks and spatial-temporal conditions between the signals of sensors to formulate the rules that will detect the occurrence of the specific activities of interest.