{"id":511108,"date":"2024-05-07T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=511108"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:24:30","slug":"smart-socks-for-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/smart-socks-for-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart socks for the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_511071\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-511071 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas_meia-sensor-2023-10-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas_meia-sensor-2023-10-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas_meia-sensor-2023-10-800-250x334.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas_meia-sensor-2023-10-800-700x935.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas_meia-sensor-2023-10-800-120x160.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Milbotix<\/span>Inspired by the inventor&#8217;s great-grandmother, the socks measure heart rate, perspiration, and movement<span class=\"media-credits\">Milbotix<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shlomi Haar, a specialist in the neurobehavioral mechanisms of human movement, is preparing to test smart socks on 15 people in a laboratory at the Dementia Research Institute of Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom, where participants will perform daily activities in a mock living room. Developed by Chipping Norton\u2013based startup Milbotix, the socks \u2014 aptly named SmartSocks \u2014 contain sensors that measure the wearer\u2019s heart rate, perspiration, and movement. If accepted by potential users, they could help with the remote monitoring of dementia patients, who are not always willing to wear the bracelets currently used to monitor the well-being of elderly people with cognitive problems. The socks would be an ideal solution \u2014 at least in places where the climate conditions allow them to be worn naturally every day \u2014 since they appear ordinary to the wearer. Milbotix CEO Zeke Steer decided to create the SmartSocks after witnessing his own great-grandmother&#8217;s battle with dementia. Eager to help, he gave up his job in the defense industry to study a PhD in robotics, during which time he became interested in wearable technologies (Imperial College London Newsletter, August 10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smart socks offer new option for remote monitoring of dementia patients","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[243],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-511108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-innovation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511109,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511108\/revisions\/511109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511108"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=511108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}