75 years old lady lives next door to me. She lives alone though she has 43 years old son but he has his own family and lives far ?wawy from his mother. They installed new eNeighbor system that consists of motion detector that old lady wares all the time with her and monitors with central monitoring system that controls detector’s moving and can automatically call 911 if there is no movement for a long time.

Happily my neighbor has no diseases that normally belong to her age – she has no Alzheimer’s or Dementia, she can do most things to care about herself and she is making Sunday cookies for neighbor’s children.

Last week I’ve seen 911 rescue team cars near my old neighbor’s home late night. Motion detectors in lady’s bedroom and bathroom registered that she had not left the area in her usual pattern and relayed that information to a central monitoring system, prompting a call to her telephone to ask if she was all right. When she did not answer, that incited more calls — to a neighbor, to the building manager and finally to 911, which dispatched firefighters to break through her door. She had been on the floor less than an hour when they arrived.

Those newest devices are quite expensive and that’s why remain largely unproven and are not usually covered by the government or private insurance plans. Doctors are not trained to treat patients using remote data and have no mechanism to be paid for doing so. And like all technologies, the devices — including motion sensors, pill compliance detectors and wireless devices that transmit data on blood pressure, weight, oxygen and glucose levels — may have unintended consequences, substituting electronic measurements for face-to-face contact with doctors, nurses and family members.

Source: Julia Anna Alison. Choice Eldercare