GPS Tech Review

Presently there is just one geriatrician in the U.S. for every 5,000 seniors; about half of what there should be, according to the American Geriatrics Society.

The problem is that fewer medical students are choosing this subspecialty because treating older patients who have multiple, complex problems makes it difficult for a doctor to make a living as they require significantly more time to treat. Medicare doesn’t progressively compensate for an extended 45-minute appointment with a dementia patient. Says Dr. Bruce Robinson; “These patients require the most time and pay the worst.”

Consequently, the shortage of geriatricians is also worsening. While medical students elect other more lucrative specialties than geriatrics, the population of those over 65 is accelerating faster than ever in our nation’s history with one in every eight an Alzheimer’s victim. The American Geriatrics Society estimates that by 2030, there will be a shortage of 36,000 geriatricians in the U.S., up from 7,000 today.

Alzheimer’s disease has reached crisis proportions in the United States, with incidence, prevalence, and mortality all on the rise. Today there are now more than 5.3 million people with Alzheimer’s disease.  The Alzheimer’s Association has projected an increase of 12-14 million new cases by 2030 as there is no cure for the disease. With rising medical and assisted living costs, the burden of daily care for these ravished victims rests most often with the more than 10 million unpaid family caregivers.

These staggering statistics do not take into account the additional cost of monitoring and retrieving the 60% of the afflicted that will wander off and become lost. If not recovered within hours their fragile health will fail rendering them a mortality statistic and a significant expense for the municipality that will be called in to search for them.

 Using 2 way personal GPS Tracking technologies it will be possible in just a few months for caregivers to enjoy the 24×7 peace of mind that comes with knowing where their loved-ones are with a push of a button on a Smart Phone. While medicine cannot yet pinpoint the cure, GPS Personal Location Services technology can now pinpoint the person.

3G Smart Phones, GPS Shoe, GPS Tracking, Location Based Services March 3rd, 2010

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As their minds wither, the afflicted may become disoriented and wander off forgetting who they are and where live. Searching for the missing places a great deal of stress on the caregivers, because If not found in hours they often succumb to the elements.

GTX Corp and Aetrex Worldwide will be offering a patented tracking solution that should afford all concerned with the assurance of instant and accurate GPS location.

GPS Shoe, GPS Tracking, Location Based Services February 28th, 2010

Restaurants, Clubs, Shops, Professional Offices, Hotels and Business of every kind are places where people meet. Whether you are there for business or entertainment they are Social Locations and opportunistic for meeting a person or a group of people. To facilitate meetings at Social Locations there is GPS Tracking Lite, a FREE smart phone app for the iPhone and Android platforms. The App can grab a name from your smart phone contact list that has also downloaded the App and send a location request via an SMS message. An SMS acknowledgement accepting the request will produce a Google map with turn-by-turn directions tracing the most direct route to each other. Pick a place on the route and you have a Social Location. Some folks are putting GEO Fences around their Social locations…

GPS Tracking, Location Based Services February 25th, 2010

 Tragedies happen to others… until they hit home. Ask yourself; where would you go, what would you do, who would you call… all questions that you might be able to answer today, but possibly not if you were trapped beneath rubble that separated you from your family as has happened to so many in Haiti.

When help does arrive how will they know if you or a family member suffer from a severe allergy, a chronic condition or are in need of prescription medication if you cannot speak? Protect yourself, your family and pets with CodeAmberAlertags.

Learn more about how to create a secure digital record of your medical history, a contact list in case of emergency and a repository for valuable documents… information that first responders may need to properly assess you needs and initiate the proper emergency procedures to stabilize your condition. Then, the tag’s secure layer of in depth vital medical information, available only by your permission, would be accessible to medical personnel online.

In a world exploding with technology, Haiti remains a technologically and financially impoverished agri-society despite our aid. Hopefully this tragedy will bring economic development to the country, but sadly too late for those that lived in hillside shanties existing from hand to mouth.

Americans have donated more than $8 million for Haiti relief via TXT message. The online donation system enables a $10 donation by texting HAITI to 90999. If you can, give.

APP Store, GPS Tracking, Location Based Services January 15th, 2010

ScanLife, an App widely available online as a free download, turns a mobile phone into a bar-code reader to capture the quick-response (QR) codes printed in advertisements. Versions exist for the iPhone and BlackBerry as well as Android-based handsets in the United States. ScanLife can read many standard bar codes on a variety of phones, so it can also perform price comparisons.

The way it works is simple — Readers scan the code into an Internet-enabled phone, and the QR bar code will take them to a mobile menu providing information about the item, including where to buy it and a coupon to incentivize a sale.

 A recent story in the NYT suggests that it may take time for scanning to take hold, but no one foresaw the impact of the App Store either.

 Consumers will learn – sooner than later – that their GPS enabling Apps like GPS Tracking– will allow them to not only locate a retailer, but share the location and valuable information like coupons with their network..

APP Store, GPS Tracking January 11th, 2010

Ever try to send an annotated Google map embedded in an e-mail message to 83 co-workers from your mobile phone contact list in a second? How about showing the location and telling your BFF about a new shop that opened with a half off sale and they have her size? Imagine being able to tell someone that your car broke down, you’re going to be late and not to worry the tow service is on its way, while you are on a conference call.

 Securely sharing the location of friends, family and co-workers has just been taken to whole new level with the GPS Tracker and GPS Tracker Lite mobile Apps from GTX Corp for the iPhone and Android platform.

 To have “game” you need to know right now, this app is the real time “where” answer.

APP Store, GPS Tracking January 11th, 2010

Does one’s right to privacy carry a greater weight than one’s right to life?

A recent Canadian news article raises the issue of demented patients rights to privacy over thier right to life owing to the incursion of GPS Tracking technology affording care givers knowleged of thier location should they wander.

GPS for Alzheimer’s patients?

Wed Dec. 23 2009 5:17:49 PM  ctvmontreal.ca

Montreal police are conducting a feasibility study into the costs and benefits of providing GPS tracking bracelets to Alzheimer’s patients to prevent them from becoming lost.

The study comes less than two weeks after Maria del Carmen Serrano, 73, was found dead near the Hippodrome de Montreal former race track after she wandered off from her Park Extension home days earlier. Her son, Jesus Serrano, is convinced his mother would still be alive today if she’d had a GPS tracking bracelet. He tried to order one for her a year ago, after she disappeared the first of three times.

“They told me, ‘No, in Canada you cannot use that system.’ But if it is in Canada, I would love to have had that because with that, I could find my mom in five minutes,” he said.

Montreal police expect the results of the study in the new year. If the study recommends bracelets, extensive discussions will follow on which at-risk individuals should be provided the devices, as well as whether the tracking tools would be government funded.

Lorraine Sauve, director of the Alzheimer’s Society Suroit, said aside from the GPS tracker, there are strategies for families to improve the safety of those who live with the illness.

“I think it’s a good idea, with a bit of reservation. I like the GPS system, (but) I would like it to not replace the love and care of a caregiver, or the supervision of a caregiver,” said Sauve.

At the Griffith-McConnell residence in Cote St. Luc, the most serious Alzheimer’s patients live in locked wards and have bracelets that trigger locks on doors if those at risk of wandering get too close to them. Officials there say they have reservations about the GPS device.

“My hesitation about the GPS is really around privacy rights. Every individual has the right to privacy and having somebody know where you are at any given moment really destroys that right,” said Annette Rudy at the Griffith-McConnell residence.

Still Jesus Serrano said the GPS is the best way to keep those afflicted with the disease safe.

“One hundred per cent they should have that, because I don’t want anybody to have this happen, what happened to me,” he said.

GPS Shoe, GPS Tracking, Location Based Services December 26th, 2009