Dementia and Alzheimer’s have become the most common disease from which the elderly suffer. Sadly, a number of old people suffering from these mental illnesses go missing, leaving their family members in a hapless situation. With GPS technology being implied to everything, it is strange how no one thought of using the tracking system to keep the dementia patients’ movement in check.
Finally GTX (a GPS personal location service company) and Atrex have given this technology a chance by developing footwear that keeps relaying the whereabouts of a patient. Not just that, this footwear can even create a geo-fence that once crossed will automatically trigger an alarm on your cellphone or computer.
A shoe is just perfect to embed a GPS device as the Alzheimer’s or dementia patients have a tendency to get rid of strange objects from their bodies. The developers plan to test the footwear by the last quarter of this year.
Via: Technovelgy
