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- 00z003, on 06/06/2009, -1/+21Wow that's an excellent idea.
- trixxz, on 06/07/2009, -0/+11Works only if they remember to put their shoes on.
- cornelje, on 06/07/2009, -1/+11What happens when they take their shoes off?
- quirkopatra, on 06/07/2009, -0/+10Great. We can geo-cache grampa!
- Rain12913, on 06/07/2009, -1/+11Did you rtfa? This is for people with Alzheimer's who suffer from short term memory loss and often wander off and become hurt. No one's going to force you to wear GPS shoes you wacko.
- rjinswand, on 06/07/2009, -1/+10 * Dave Lister: Sometimes I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once brought a pair of shoes with artificial intelligence. Smart Shoes, they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they would always get you home. Then he got ratted one night in Oslo, and woke up the next morning in Burma. See, the shoes got bored just going from his local to the flat. They wanted to see the world, man, y'know? He had a helluva job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day! He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down, y'know?
* Arnold Rimmer: Is this true?
* Dave Lister: Yeah! Last thing he heard, they'd sort of, erm, robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, y'see.
* Arnold Rimmer: Really?!
* Dave Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away by it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him, he said, it was alright, and all that, and the shoes were happy, and they'd gone to heaven. Y'see, it turns out shoes have soles. - Barackalypse, on 06/07/2009, -4/+12Why not use a lockable GPS bracelet that is always warn instead, much like the monitoring bracelets prisoners use? That would seem to avoid all of the problems you will experience from placing it in one single article of clothing that must be put on to be effective. Most people I know own multiple pairs of shoes, and someone in a truly incoherent state cannot be relied to put on any single article of clothing.
- Barackalypse, on 06/07/2009, -4/+11Why is it any better than a lockable GPS bracelet that is always worn? We've been using those for years on parolee's and its proven technology that doesn't rely on the end user to do anything to work. Can you really trust someone incoherent is going to put on the one pair of shoes that has this in them?
- Barackalypse, on 06/07/2009, -3/+6Yes, far better we rely on observant and kindly strangers and raw luck to recover the incoherent individuals that wander off.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -1/+4well to me it seems more humane, people with alzheimer's have done nothing in particular other than wonder off, we need to provide for them as kindly as possible and a lock on bracelet that you low-jack a thug with is less kind than a chip in their shoes. If they start wondering around without their shoes on put a bracelet on them, but try the least invasive method possible first.
- Rain12913, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3Because when you're 90 years old and suffering from dementia they'll have implanted a microscopic GPS tracker into your body. Being barefoot will only give you cut feet.
- JoeHague, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3I'd like to think that by the time wildkats74 is 90 Alzheimer's will be cured/
- Barackalypse, on 06/07/2009, -2/+5What part of "lockable GPS bracelet" (usually worn on the ankle) suggests implant to you?
- vspazv, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3This'll make it so much easier to track my bitches down when they run off.
- whiteness81224, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3Alzheimer's patients can be extremely fussy and may be bothered to the point of obsession by something like a lockable bracelet, -not a good idea unless they like it. Personally, I prefer the embedded chip.
- JoeHague, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3@barackalypse
How many times are you going to make the same comment before you read the article?
"Carle said embedding a GPS device in a shoe was important because Alzheimer's victims tend to remove unfamiliar objects placed on them but getting dressed is one of the last types of memory they retain." - siszam, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2"well to me it seems more humane, people with alzheimer's have done nothing in particular other than wonder off, we need to provide for them as kindly as possible and a lock on bracelet that you low-jack a thug with is less kind than a chip in their shoes. If they start wondering around without their shoes on put a bracelet on them, but try the least invasive method possible first."
Okay, what if you only get one chance to save them? My mom wondered off and wasn't found for days. Thank God she survived and the police found her. Nothing stopped her from undressing herself or taking off her shoes. But a removable bracelet could have helped us find her right away. You don't get a second chance to find someone who has wondered off and layed down in a ditch in freezing temperatures. Get it now? - bigteebo, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2Do they really need the gps on BOTH shoes?
- GeekNurse, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2Don't feed the trolls....
- siszam, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3My mother has Alzheimer's and I've worked with patients who did. Many of them undress themselves over and over. You can't keep clothes on some of them. So shoes that track them aren't a good idea. The lockable bracelet is because they can't remove it.
- grimacebrown, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3It's really more that I imagine it would be a lot easier to convince somebody who's sanity is waning to wear a pair of shoes than it will be to wear a gps bracelet.
- linagee, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2How could you remove a non-removable GPS bracelet? :-D
- Black6x, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3"Well, now I know where I am. But I have no idea where I was going."
- JoeHague, on 06/07/2009, -2/+4You obviously do not understand the complex nature of someone struggling with dementia. Imagine having to tell your mother that she'd have to wear the same uncomfortable, and unsightly ankle bracelet as a sex offender, day and night for the rest of her life. All because you think she is too incoherent to remember how to get home from the store.
Now imagine giving your mother a new pair of shoes/ - mr5150, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3today it's testing equipment on Alzheimer patients, several years from now it will be standard issue/law on every pair of shoes 'cause the government cares for you and wouldn't want anything nasty to happen to ya.
start the burying. - freefoodisgood, on 06/07/2009, -1/+2My granddad had Alzheimer's, we lived with him for the last two years of his life in Mexico. People with Alzheimer's aren't completely incoherent, just random. My granddad would claim it was there year 1938, when his father died, and he had to go to the funeral. He would get dressed and try to leave. He would also think that he would have to go to work, or the store, or a number of other places, but he always did the basics like put on pants and shoes.
I think the GPS shoes are a great idea. - eShinn, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1Dugg for the Red Dwarf mention.
I was thinking of the Justice episode with the boots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaUJoXuUxE - eShinn, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1Got me tears! LOL
- disgruntledgoat, on 06/07/2009, -1/+2Yes and while a crim knows the cops will be there if they try remove the bracelet, an alzeihmers patient may just start smashing the thing up.
I helped care for a lady with a necklace GPS alert system but there were never any gaurantees she wouldn't take it off. She was a stroke victim who had lost her ability to form new memories, so usually she'd just go to her old house, but sometimes try to see her kids in another city. Only just caught as she got on an interstate train once. - inactive, on 06/07/2009, -1/+2What if they forget which shoes to put on or forget to wear shoes.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1So much for my GPS ribbon candy patent.
- 00z003, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1I was unaware they had bracelets. They didn't have them when my grandfather was suffering with Alzheimer's. Obviously, you would get rid of all of their shoes except the ones that could be tracked.
If it doesn't work, you can use a bracelet or whatever. The more technology and choices, the better. - howea, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1hello, please to meet you
- JoeHague, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1Those ankle monitoring bracelets aren't non-removable- They're design do alert police if they are removed/
- Briandrews15, on 06/07/2009, -1/+2Just skip all this nonsense and implant us all with tracking devices already /s.
But really I hope this works, I see too many signs on the freeway about missing elderly. - immatellyouwhat, on 06/07/2009, -2/+3Great, but not so good for the over paranoid grandpa that thinks the government is spying on him.
- HeyArnold, on 06/08/2009, -0/+1Grampa LoJack FTW!
- linagee, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1What if they go out barefoot? Get rid of their feet?
- 00z003, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1then you get rid of their other shoes.
- GeekNurse, on 06/07/2009, -1/+2Alzheimers is not schizophrenia.
- rjinswand, on 06/08/2009, -0/+1either that or "how did they open the doors?"
- BrianCronen, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1In theory it is excellent, but in practice, the shoes will end up in the oven and the Alzheimer's patient will end up in Utah in a rental car.
- nevaseez, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1no you were spot on with the nano gps tracker implant.. do you really think the pharmecutical companies want that?
- nick9000, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1The Onion headline if I ever heard one.
- falconear, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1Damn you, you beat me to it!!
Rimmer: What a remarkable story. Waait a minute...how did the shoes steer? - lousyhunter, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1"Now where did I put my shoes... DAMN IT!"
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..................................., - inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1yea thats how it all starts.
everyone will get microchipped for 'their convenience' - inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+1Old people are very susceptible to chafing/skin lesions and tend to have poor circulation in their extremities. An ankle bracelet would likely cause problems and could possibly lead to health problems.
- RichMig, on 06/07/2009, -1/+1Perhaps an implant then.
- fanfablebig, on 06/07/2009, -1/+1I quick glanced at this article title and I thought it was trying to say "Georges St. Pierre makes shoes for Alzheimer patients."
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