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7．Fall Risk Assessment
7.1 Introduction
The Sentinare activity sensor can also perform fall risk assessment. This allows users to evaluate the fall
risk of seniors or patients regularly in long-term care facilities, community centres, or at homes, without
having to go to hospitals to do the test, and identify people with high fall risk earlier, so that necessary
interventions can be taken to reduce falls and the damages they could cause.
The method implemented by the Sentinare activity sensor is based on the widely used Morse Fall Risk
Assessment Scale, which assign scores to the following six factors, and the total score is used to
determine the fall risk.
• History of falling in the last 3 months
• Secondary diagnosis
• Ambulatory aid
• IV or saline assistance
• Mental illness
• Gait quality
The Morse method’s average sensitivity and specificity is over 80%, and interrater reliability is 0.96,
meaning repeated tests by different examiners are highly consistent. Therefore the method has been
widely adopted around the world.
7.2 Morse Fall Risk Assessment Scale
To perform fall risk assessment for a person, tap the Peoples icon in the bottom of the screen, and select
the person in the list of people. In the person’s individual page, tap the Assess Fall Risk button to go to
the Assess Fall Risk page, as shown below.