{"id":10143,"date":"2026-05-29T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10143"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:31:19","slug":"monitoring-dementia-patients-in-care-facilities-using-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/monitoring-dementia-patients-in-care-facilities-using-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Dementia Patients in Care Facilities Using Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A study was published recently in <a href=\"https:\/\/mhealth.jmir.org\/2026\/1\/e70188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JMIR mHealth and uHealth<\/a>. Researchers evaluated a monitoring method that integrated wrist-worn accelerometers with ankle-worn Bluetooth beacons to track individuals with dementia in a long-term residential unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"631\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dementiapatientmonitoringusingbluetooth.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dementiapatientmonitoringusingbluetooth.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dementiapatientmonitoringusingbluetooth-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>The system continuously recorded physical activity intensity, walking bouts, sleep efficiency, and social interactions based on indoor location tracking. The researchers found the beacon-based methodology to be feasible and highly reliable for identifying clinical behaviours, such as wandering, with minimal intrusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study was published recently in JMIR mHealth and uHealth. Researchers evaluated a monitoring method that integrated wrist-worn accelerometers with ankle-worn Bluetooth beacons to track individuals with dementia in a long-term residential unit. The system continuously recorded physical activity intensity, walking bouts, sleep efficiency, and social interactions based on indoor location tracking. The researchers found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/monitoring-dementia-patients-in-care-facilities-using-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monitoring Dementia Patients in Care Facilities Using Beacons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}