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Katherine Wuestney¹, Diane Cook², Catherine Van Son¹

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Behavioral complexity in older adults, measured by smart home sensors, can indicate frailty. Changes in movement complexity over time may correlate with health status, though individual results vary.

Keywords:

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Data Science

Background:

Aging complexity theory links signal complexity to adaptive capacity and frailty.
Smart homes with ambient sensors enable longitudinal study of older adults' indoor movement complexity.
A novel computational method estimates behavior complexity from sensor data.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the relationship between entropy-measured smart home sensor data complexity and frailty.
To investigate frailty in independent, community-dwelling older adults using sensor data.

Main Methods:

Quantified indoor movement complexity using entropy analysis of smart home data.
Utilized a Universal Sequence Map with a Rényi Complexity Index (USM-Rényi) for complexity measurement.
Assessed weekly frailty using the Clinical Frailty Scale in 11 older adults (≥65 years).

Main Results:

Sensor-derived indoor movement complexity changes over time in older adults.
Some individuals showed complexity changes tracking with health transitions and frailty progression.
Three cases exhibited a negative association between frailty and complexity; others were less clear.

Conclusions:

Older adults' smart home data complexity is diverse and influenced by health and frailty.
Changes in indoor movement complexity correlate with health and frailty.
Confounding factors like home environment and technology issues can impact sensor data.