A novel digital health pathway enables healthcare technologies for gait&falls in Parkinson’s disease (moveIT)

Third Party Funds Group - Overall project


Acronym: moveIT

Start date : 01.01.2018

End date : 31.12.2018


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Short description

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder (10 mio. patients worldwide) with increasing prevalence in western societies. Gait impairment and falls strongly reduce quality of life for PD patients, lead to severe comorbidities, and cause substantial healthcare costs. Scientific evidence shows that adequate treatment may increase mobility, reduce risk-of-falling, prevent falls, and reduce cost. However, technologies to comprehensively monitor gait&falls are not available or fail to qualify as a medical service or product, and can therefore not be applied clinically in multidisciplinary healthcare concepts to improve PD patient mobility.

This project will generate the first comprehensive gait&fall assessment battery integrated into a multidisciplinary healthcare concept by establishing an innovative digital health pathway for gait&falls in PD. Existing well-characterised patient cohorts and state-of-the-art healthcare concepts will be used in a Living Lab to develop, test, and validate sensor-based movement assessments for application in clinical studies and patient care, ultimately preventing falls by moving PD healthcare into digital health.

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