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Mental health-related disorders are common in elderly populations. Among the various mental health disorders, one most significant threat is dementia, and prediction of dementia has become an important issue related to well-being in old age, because the disease progression of dementia can be slowed by early diagnosis and disease control. In this paper, we propose an unobtrusive dementia-prediction system for monitoring physical activities of elderly persons either living alone or as a couple in different house structures, achieved through passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors combined with data processing. The proposed feature extraction algorithm extracts feature values related to physical activities from simple passive infrared sensors located in each room space. We then apply a variety of common popular classification models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), to predict the risk of dementia in a sensor-enabled home. We implemented and validated algorithms on data collected for over a month from 18 participants who were engaged with a variety of living conditions. The proposed system was effective in predicting dementia risk, with up to an 0.99 area under the curve (AUC) using DNN with principal component analysis (PCA) and a quantile transformer scaler. In terms of the result based on leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) analysis, an accuracy of 63.38&#x0025; was achieved using DNN with PCA and a standard scaler. The proposed methodology is non-invasive and cost-effective, and can be used for a variety of long-term monitoring and early symptom detection systems, helping caregivers provide optimal interventions to elderly individuals at risk for dementia.

IoT-Based Unobtrusive Physical Activity Monitoring System for Predicting Dementia