A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention
Virtual reality (VR) is a promising and cost-effective tool that has the potential to reduce the prevalence of falls and locomotor impairments in older adults. However, we believe that existing VR-based approaches to prevent falls do not mimic the full breadth of perceptual, cognitive, an...
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| author | Tiphanie E Raffegeau William R Young Peter C Fino A Mark Williams |
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Virtual reality (VR) is a promising and cost-effective tool that has the potential to reduce the prevalence of falls and locomotor impairments in older adults. However, we believe that existing VR-based approaches to prevent falls do not mimic the full breadth of perceptual, cognitive, and motor demands that older adults encounter in daily life. Researchers have not yet fully leveraged VR to address affective factors related to fall risk, and how stressors such as anxiety influence older adult balance and real-world falls. In this perspective paper, we propose developing VR-based tools that replicate the affective demands of real-world falls (eg, crossing the street) to enhance fall prevention diagnostics and interventions by capturing the underlying processes that influence everyday mobility. An effort to replicate realistic scenarios that precipitate falls in VR environments will inform evidence-based diagnostics and individualize interventions in a way that could reduce falls in older adults in daily life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-249b6f66470b436e96688182e31bff6c2023-08-28T23:25:16ZengJMIR PublicationsJMIR Aging2561-76052023-01-016e3632510.2196/36325A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall PreventionTiphanie E Raffegeauhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-0124William R Younghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5064-8601Peter C Finohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8621-3706A Mark Williamshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4644-0242 Virtual reality (VR) is a promising and cost-effective tool that has the potential to reduce the prevalence of falls and locomotor impairments in older adults. However, we believe that existing VR-based approaches to prevent falls do not mimic the full breadth of perceptual, cognitive, and motor demands that older adults encounter in daily life. Researchers have not yet fully leveraged VR to address affective factors related to fall risk, and how stressors such as anxiety influence older adult balance and real-world falls. In this perspective paper, we propose developing VR-based tools that replicate the affective demands of real-world falls (eg, crossing the street) to enhance fall prevention diagnostics and interventions by capturing the underlying processes that influence everyday mobility. An effort to replicate realistic scenarios that precipitate falls in VR environments will inform evidence-based diagnostics and individualize interventions in a way that could reduce falls in older adults in daily life.https://aging.jmir.org/2023/1/e36325 |
| spellingShingle | Tiphanie E Raffegeau William R Young Peter C Fino A Mark Williams A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention JMIR Aging |
| title | A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention |
| title_full | A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention |
| title_fullStr | A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention |
| title_short | A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention |
| title_sort | perspective on using virtual reality to incorporate the affective context of everyday falls into fall prevention |
| url | https://aging.jmir.org/2023/1/e36325 |
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