ABSTRACT
Recent advances in telehealth offer tremendous opportunities for enabling people who are older or who suffer from disabilities such as cognitive or physical decline to live independently within their homes while receiving care and remote health assistance from friends, family members and healthcare providers. The ongoing evolution of the internet and advances in home-electronics and wireless technologies are enabling friends, relatives and other healthcare providers to monitor remotely the health status of an older or fragile adult living independently more easily. In this chapter, we will discuss specifi cally how new technologies in mobility assessment can be used to enable older people living independently within their
home to live safely in their later lives, thereby avoiding the high cost of long-term care and assisted living.
