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This study investigated whether indoor mobility features derived from PIR sensors could discriminate levels of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in community-dwelling older adults living alone. Mobility variables were extracted from three months of PIR sensor recordings and aggregated at the participant level for 40 individuals, who were classified into high- and low-HRQoL groups according to the EQ-5D index. A nested stratified five-fold cross-validation framework was implemented, incorporating RandomOverSampler exclusively within the training folds to address class imbalance while preserving the original distribution of the outer test folds. Three machine learning classifiers\u2014Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)\u2014were evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). 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