Assessment of frailty: a survey of quantitative and clinical methods

Table 5 Activities studied for fall and frailty assessment

S.No	List of Activities	Purpose	Sensor	Methods	Monitoring Duration
1	Elbow flexion and extension [31]	Frailty assessment	Inertial Sensor	Statistical Analysis	Short term (20 s test)
2	Walking [11, 38]	Fall Detection [38], Frailty Model [11]	Camera [38], smart phone [11]	Semi-Supervised, Computer Vision [38]	Short Term
3	Standing [38]	Fall Detection	Camera	Computer Vision	Short Term
4	Lying [38]	Fall Detection	Camera	Computer Vision	Short Term
5	Stair Ascent [27]	Differentiate Stair Climbing Pattern for Frail and Athlete	IMU worn as pendent	Wavelet decision tree	30 mins
6	Chair Rise Transfer [30]	Correlating Chair Rise Power with frailty (GFI) and Clinical Tests (TUG)	Pendent sensor	Support vector machine and Statistical Analysis	One Week Under Semi Controlled Environment
7	Handwashing [80]	Prediction of Cognitive Status	Camera	Machine learning	Video Recorded for Trials in Controlled Environment