Monday, December 3, 2007

Make Your Daughter Your Big Brother

Filed under: Geriatrics

The Wall Street Journal has an article and a short video on how aging seniors are adapting to use home monitoring systems to ease their lives, help during emergencies, and provide families a remote way to assist their elderly.

Home-monitoring customers total a few thousand nationwide, according to half a dozen monitoring companies I surveyed. The most common systems use wireless motion or contact sensors on doorways, windows, walls, ceilings, cabinets, refrigerators, appliances or beds to track seniors' movements. Temperature sensors gauge heat and air conditioning. If an elderly person enters the bathroom and doesn't come out, or other typical activity patterns aren't recorded in the home, word can be sent to family members, 24-hour response workers or both. The systems also offer hand-held or wearable "panic buttons."

Read the rest at the Wall Street Journal...

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