Research Fellow ➡️ dementia,gait, activity, wearable tech. @uniofnewcastle.
Head of Content, Policy & Research @wyldementia.
North Co-lead @DEMONNetworkUK.
Sep 1, 2020 • 11 tweets • 11 min read
As its the first day of #WorldAlzMonth, I thought I'd give a brief overview of work I've done in collaboration with @BAM_Research.
My research focuses on improving how we diagnose and care for people with #dementia.
I use #gait analysis and #wearables to meet these aims (1/n).
My first step was to find out if people with #dementia have unique signatures of #gait impairment (i.e. Unique walking patterns).
My review revealed that gait may be useful to identify dementia but we didn't know enough about gait in dementia subtypes.
