Affiliations: MAmI Research Lab, Castilla-La Mancha University,
Ciudad Real, Spain
Note: [] Corresponding author: Jesús Fontecha, MAmI Research Lab,
Esc. Sup. de Informática, Paseo de la Universidad, 4 13071 Ciudad Real,
Spain. E-mail: jesus.fontecha@uclm.es
Abstract: The early detection and diagnosis of frailty is important in
improving the quality of elderly life. Physicians must take many factors into
account to achieve an objective and standardised method of frailty assessment.
In this work, we present a novel mobile service infrastructure to improve the
accuracy of frailty diagnosis in a population of elders, focusing on the main
frailty risk factors and applying similarity algorithms based on Gower's
coefficient. In addition, we have developed a mobile application to obtain the
assessment results from the implemented services. The results are displayed on
the mobile device using hierarchical visualisation structures known as
treemaps. The system has been evaluated as a frailty diagnosis tool in a group
of elderly patients.
Keywords: Frailty, elderly people, mobile service, similarity coefficient, treemap visualisation
