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Monday, March 3, 2008

Nursing Home Positioning System Helps Patients to Get Around

Filed under: Geriatrics


Dutch engineering students at Arnhem-Nijmegen University have developed a navigation system for people suffering from memory problems, which uses signals from wireless internet access points around a nursing home to locate and provide guidance to the so-called Zimmer Frame built into walkers used around the facility.

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