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| Help for Alzheimer Patient Safety | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 26 2015, 03:18 AM (182 Views) | |
| Darcie | Feb 26 2015, 03:18 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.wimp.com/ideapatients/ This could save lives. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 26 2015, 03:24 AM Post #2 |
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I'm wondering how the device deals with having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night? |
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| Darcie | Feb 26 2015, 03:27 AM Post #3 |
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Probably the alarm is only activated when the person leaves a given area, like an ankle bracelet. I understood it then sends the person's position to the smart phone. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 26 2015, 05:03 AM Post #4 |
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I took it to be merely pressure driven when the person got out of bed and stepped on it. Bob suggested maybe there is a delay...like 5 minutes before activation. Enough time to take a pee. But yes, a GPS system would work, albeit a lot more expensively. Edited by Trotsky, Feb 26 2015, 05:05 AM.
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| Dana | Feb 26 2015, 06:25 AM Post #5 |
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WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire
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I think less costly than the search and rescue team going out for Grandma or Grandpa when they want to go for a walk into the woods as they sometimes do around here. I would say no thanks, just let me wander on a mistaken mushroom hike, a nice way to go. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 26 2015, 10:48 AM Post #6 |
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Maybe in the deepest recesses of their minds, that is EXACTLY what they are doing. |
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| wildie | Feb 26 2015, 02:20 PM Post #7 |
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My son was hospitalized in a rehab hospital. They also tended to Alzheimer patients. All the patients wore special wrist bands, that triggered an alarm to the nursing station. If I wanted to take my son to the coffee shop, it was necessary to input this info into the computer. One time I forgot and while we were enjoying our coffee, a nurse came and found us, by using the tracking service that monitored movement throughout the hospital. |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 26 2015, 03:43 PM Post #8 |
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The grandfather in the video would not be able to respond to the urge to pee by getting up and going to the toilet. If he is at the stage where he can't walk or eat without assistance I have no hesitation in saying he has also lost the awareness of how to deal appropriately with a full bladder. He is incontinent. |
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