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Nursing Homes Go High-Tech
mattlary writes "Here's an interesting article about a tracking system being installed in a retirement community. The system can track where residents are anywhere in the campus, and also uses cameras to keep an eye on residents. The community also contains numerous sensors so staff can track residents' activity."
big brother is watching grand uncle.
"Sensors on refrigerator doors that automatically notify staff when residents are up and active each day, replacing older methods such as "check-in" buttons or paper cards on doorknobs."
I hope when I'm that old I'll still keep bizarre hours. It'll keep the staff on their toes.
I wanna be the first boy on the block to have an RFID tagged granny!
..that the nursing home never gets any retired slashdotters there. I'm sure the tin foil would be missing from the tops of the dinner trays and quickly turned into hats...
-Gamma
In my day, we didn't have young whippersnappers such as yourselves tracking us with your whositz and your whatnots. We tied onions to our belts, each person a different colored onion. Yessir, that's how they tracked us. Onions. Now, back then you couldn't just get onions anywhere. Nosir. You had to hop the So'easter heading to Fayettesvile. That's where the onion factories were.... First you had to get past the guards ndnmsa,sdnfffsf snorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.
We already have useful systems for handling this.
Personally, I want behavioural adjustment collars for my clients to wear...
I'm sure my tongue is somewhere near my cheek.
I forget what 8 was for.
One thing about nurses is that they often keep detailed record of things. For example all nursing notes tend to keep a recorded of how many times a persons bowels have opened during the nurse's shift. eg.
BNO = bowels not opened
BO x 2 = bowels opened twice
As these places become more high tech and have nursing notes placed in databases amazing facts of information about people will be able to be gleamed.
For example, you could find out that Mr X had 480 peices of toast in the last twelve months, and that he opened his bowels 250 times... and that he tended to open his bowel in morning after having 2 peices of toast for breakfast, not his normal one.
I'm sure the department of homeland security could make brilliant use of such information!!!
Can I get a "behavioural adjustment collar" for the end-users at the office? Please?
:)
end-user: My Windows OS locked -- [bzzzzzt]
me: what was that?
end-user: My computer is [bzzzzzzzzt]
me: i'm sorry, what?
end-user: just called to say what a great job you are doing
Oh, yeah. I'd pay thousands for that system....
bash: rtfm: command not found
Time to put on my aluminum (shiny side out!!) burka!!
So it isn't Big Brother that's watching us any more, it's Young Whipper Snapper? They keep making things so difficult to follow.
Where's my tin-foil colostomy bag?