{"id":118832,"date":"2021-03-29T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//?p=118832"},"modified":"2021-03-29T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:11:10","slug":"a-holistic-look-at-aging-populations-technology-to-anticipate-fall-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//a-holistic-look-at-aging-populations-technology-to-anticipate-fall-rates/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832//","title":{"rendered":"A Holistic Look at Aging Populations: Technology to Anticipate Fall Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nursing Assistant Professor Ladda Thiamwong works with elderly patients and tackles one of the most pressing issues facing this population: the mental and physical instability surrounding life-threatening falls./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/n
With the help of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, Thiamwong has developed a treatment regiment for aging patients, which assesses not only their physical abilities but their perceptions about falling./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/n
It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u2019s a holistic approach she began investigating 15 years ago as a nurse in Thailand and which she has now continued at UCF. The National Institutes of Aging awarded her a $149,000 grant in September 2020 to study this phenomena during the course of two years./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/n
She has developed an assessment tool that uses portable sensors to monitor a patient/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u2019s physical activity. At the same time, she administers a survey to gauge the patient/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u2019s beliefs about their likelihood of falling./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/n
Gauging a patient/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u2019s physical ability as well as mental processes gives her a better grasp on how to shape a patient/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u2019s treatment plan, which best prevents their falling. Much research conducted in this field looks primarily to physical indicators of a patient/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u2019s body, but for many patients this is not the only factor that shapes their perception on how likely they are to fall./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u201cPatients often live in fear of falling and will withdraw from their day-to-day activities because of it,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u201cPerception and physical functionality work together with this issue./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/118832/n