Families Use Apps to Track Relatives With Dementia

Kim Rice tracks her husband’s every move, including his arrival home each night from adult day care.

She’s among the millions of Americans caring for a loved one with dementia at home. And like many, she turned to tracking and monitoring devices to help her manage the daily juggle of working, ensuring her husband’s safety and maintaining her own sanity.

Yeah also the big players in the Silicon Valley software/app industry are fundamentally untrustworthy when it comes to things like customer privacy. I don’t want some creepy little techbro hovering up data about my gran’s daily routines, much less her medical conditions

Something every campaign manager should have

So chip people like animals then? Surely its less dehumanizing to have a full-time caretaker.

so.... the tech has alzheimer's too?

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