Public funding of GPS tracking for Alzheimer’s patients? October 8, 2007
Posted by Rich in : GPS tracking elderly , trackbackAn Albany County, New York, legislator is planning to introduce a bill establishing a feasibility study to investigate possible county funding of GPS monitoring of Alzheimer’s patients. According to the Albany Times Union, Legislator Paulette Barlette said,
Between 60 and 70 percent of all Alzheimer’s patients will wander and possibly get lost at some point during the course of their disease and a staggering 50 percent will die if they are not found within 24 hours.
The county apparently already has a GPS tracking program in place, though the article doesn’t reveal what type. The bill will be introduced Tuesday night.
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