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The GPS ‘smart shoe’ that can track Alzheimer’s sufferers on Google Maps if they go missing
GPS technology can help Alzheimer’s sufferers and their carers, with the release of a shoe that tracks the wearer’s position and plots their position on Google Maps.
By Eddie Wrenn
PUBLISHED: 15:11, 18 May 2012 | UPDATED: 15:33, 18 May 2012
GPS technology can help Alzheimer’s sufferers and their carers, with the release of a shoe that tracks the wearer’s position and plots their position on Google Maps.
The GPS Smart Shoe embeds a GPS receiver and SIM card to send the shoe’s position to a private tracking website – helping to find people if they wander off.
With 800,000 sufferers in the UK – which is predicted to expand to one million within the next decade, manufacture Aetrex said they wanted to use technology to enable extra support.
The shoes and the GPS receiver sends co-ordinates to a tracking website, so they can be found if they go missing
The shoes are available for both men and women, with either straps or shoelaces, and goes for around £300 a pair, with a monthly service plan of £30.
More than 800,000 Scots adults do not know how to get mental health help
Poll: The results showed more than 800,000 adults do not know where to get help
A new poll has showed younger people and men are less aware than their peers.
Of the 18-24 year olds surveyed, 45% said they would not know where to go and 24% of men said the same.
The poll was commissioned by the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) and carried out by YouGov.
It also shows 26% of people would wait more than a year before getting help for mental health concerns.
Aberdeen dementia patient ‘had 106 paid carers’
Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.
By Eleanor Bradford BBC Scotland Health Correspondent
A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.
Jeanette Maitland said the constant stream of different faces sent by agencies working for Aberdeen’s social work department contravened her husband Ken’s basic human right to dignity.
Mr Maitland died from a dementia-related illness last week.
Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.
Mrs Maitland told BBC Scotland she initially wrote down the names of her husband’s carers so that she could get to know them.
