Patent Document ID: 20150080767
Application ID: 14551882
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method to automatically derive answers to the questions of two clinical functional assessment instruments activities of daily living (ADLs), and all but one of the instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) relying on sensors targeting the side-effects of the activities, said method comprising: date and time stamping sensor firings; and setting a set of rules method where the spatio-temporal relationships of sensor firings are examined and analyzed to infer the occurrence of activities of interest, wherein said rules include at least one of the following: a rule to automatically bathing/showering, a rule to automatically detect dressing, a rule to automatically detect toileting events, a rule to automatically detect the ability to ambulate (get out of bed/chair), a rule to automatically detect problems in controlling bladder and/or bowels, a rule to automatically detect the ability to feed oneself, a rule to automatically detect the ability to get to places outside of walking distance, a rule to automatically detect the ability to shop for groceries, a rule to automatically detect the ability to prepare meals, and a rule to automatically detect the ability to do house work.