Tagging

[becks75]

Electronic tags should be used to keep tabs on the elderly, a Government minister has suggested.
Science minister Malcolm Wicks said devices normally used to track criminals could help families keep an eye on older relatives.
Mr Wicks said many families worried about elderly relatives or "what's happening about an 80 or 90-year-old who may have Alzheimer's", and using the technology could let them know their loved one was safe.
"Satellites currently monitor the planet in a variety of different ways," he said.
"I'm raising this as an issue for discussion. Are there other uses of technology that could benefit society?

"We've got an ageing population with many people frail and many suffering from dementia, including Alzheimer's."
He continued: "How can we get the balance right so that these people have the freedom to live their lives, to go out in the community and go shopping?"
Similar technology is used to "tag" and keep track of convicted criminals who have been released from prison.

[slinkyri]

hmmmmm

could be handy in one way

at least I'd know when my mum has decided to do a runner

[liverdodo]

My Gran had one of those emergency buttons that you pin on to your clothes, so she could press it if she was unwell or had a fall etc.

Would she wear it no, so I couldn't see how on earth you would get an electronic tag on her unless did it forcibly!

[kengillam]

Why not tattoo a bar code with our Nat Insce number on our foreheads we could use that as a fraudproof payment system usuable anywhere with a scanner

[slinkyri]

My Gran had one of those emergency buttons that you pin on to your clothes, so she could press it if she was unwell or had a fall etc.

Would she wear it no, so I couldn't see how on earth you would get an electronic tag on her unless did it forcibly!

sorry can't stop laughing at the image I have - they're all the same and I guess we will be too

[Rednosty]

Electronic Tagging for Pensioners? Perhaps the goverment should be thinking more along the lines of Tagging paedophiles, Sex offenders and My offerring Autistic children! HOW fast would we have found mine if he had been tagged! AND I know My boys not the only one whos run away....Very often Autistic kids just walk and walk and walk.....

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING US ALL!

[swopmebob]

Sadly reading the general topic of this thread.My mother in a nursing home,because of suffering with Dementia.Think maybe unworkable for these type of persons,as their minds' do not oprate to enable mixing with strangers.The general public would be more frightened that actual sufferers.Hopefully in years to come,maybe a partial cure may arrive.Taking your mum is a sufferer to Ri,know the implications only to well

[slinkyri]

Sadly reading the general topic of this thread.My mother in a nursing home,because of suffering with Dementia.Think maybe unworkable for these type of persons,as their minds' do not oprate to enable mixing with strangers.The general public would be more frightened that actual sufferers.Hopefully in years to come,maybe a partial cure may arrive.Taking your mum is a sufferer to Ri,know the implications only to well

oh no Alan my mum isn't suffering from Alzheimers (thank God) but she does go walkabout and forget to tell me

I don't have any problems sorry for bum steer hun

[Rednosty]

Sadly reading the general topic of this thread.My mother in a nursing home,because of suffering with Dementia.Think maybe unworkable for these type of persons,as their minds' do not oprate to enable mixing with strangers.The general public would be more frightened that actual sufferers.Hopefully in years to come,maybe a partial cure may arrive.Taking your mum is a sufferer to Ri,know the implications only to well

Sorry to hear that My Mums very much the same...After a stroke she is Immoblie and sad to say but wants to die. She just sits day after day doing nothing. Enough to send anyone mad.

[dragonmist]

My Mum had dementia. The Nursing Home had those electronic keypads at the door, so she used to wait for a visitor to leave and went out with them before the door shut. She had to be removed from visitors cars quite frequently, protesting that the nice people were taking her for a ride.The mobile pensioners with all their marbles were allowed to come and go as they pleased. Mum climbed over a 6' fence to escape when she was 79. Unfortunately for her escape bid, she climbed over the wrong fence and ended up in the kitchen garden, where she spent a pleasant hour weeding. If they had tagged her, she would have found a way to disable or remove it. It was a lovely old Manor House withbeautiful gardens. I think she saw it as Colditz.