A Dataset for Falling Risk Assessment of the Elderly using Wearable Plantar Pressure

Abstract

Falling is characterized by high incidence and great harm among the elderly. Timely assessing falling risk in daily life is helpful for reducing the occurrence of severe health outcomes. Establishing dataset for falling risk assessment based on wearable devices in the elderly is important work. However, current existing datasets might not reflect the natural gait of the subject due to the discomfort in wearing. Relevant data processing methods based on these datasets have limited practicability and might not be applied to real scenes in daily life. To make daily falling risk assessment possible, we proposed a novel approach to set up a continuous and wearable plantar pressure dataset of 48 older adults along with falling risk labels. The dataset was collected by plantar pressure monitoring shoes which were suitable for daily living spaces. Moreover, the Conv-LSTM algorithm was applied on the dataset, and the average classification result was up to 95.57%, reflecting the effectiveness of this dataset. The dataset is helpful for the studies of falling risk assessment and health monitoring among the elderly.