An Aid for Patients and Family members
As of the year 2016, cases of dementia spiked up to 564,000 in Canada, with an additional of roughly 25, 000 additional cases yearly. Health Care system might not be enough to cover the cost of care givers, medicine and equipment needed in attending the needs of the patients.
To be specific, Alzheimer’s disease is associated with a decline in memory or thinking skills severely which makes the person’s ability to perform daily task reduced. This kind of situations make the family members feel unsecured, worried and unfocused on their daily activities.
People who are suffering from this disease can suddenly forget everything anytime. That can happen when they are outside the house, traveling outside, at work or anywhere else. This could even possibly happen to those who were not properly diagnosed yet.
With the help of technology, a useful GPS locator app can help family members to have the access finding the location of their beloved elders. Whenever the disease suddenly attacks, family members who are great concerned can easily track the location of the patient and be able to bring them home immediately. This will help both the family members and also the health care system to maximize the use of the app. Care givers can now cover a larger number of patients and check them alternately.
This will also help the patients as they can freely move in a particular area without seeing unfamiliar faces. This would help them relax, explore the surrounding and enjoy without getting stressed in dealing with people they cannot recognize, or situations that are not familiar to them.
Now family members can go to work without worrying about their elderly’s welfare. They can focus on their job as long as they will not get a notification that the patient is not out of the safe zones set by the guardian himself/herself. When emergency situation arises and the patient suddenly forgets, you can send someone to their location; this would save hours and worries from concerned family members and close friends as to the patient’s situation.
This is very helpful and inexpensive way to help the industry and the health care system top maximize the budget is medicines and even research on how to cure the disease completely. The best thing about it is they don’t have to have a mobile phone. They can have devices such as key chains, watches and new devices available in the market with GPS tracker.
GPS tracker or family location sharing app can be very helpful in security, medical field and many more. With updates it can be improved to a more useful and helpful tool that can help leap the progress and turnaround time of help and responses especially in emergency situations. It can also be useful for our police officers especially during crime. Once used properly and efficiently this will help us save time and money and will definitely be an important tool not only in one country but around the world. Do you have a family member or a friend who needs this app? There are several free apps online that you can let them try, you may download now, too!
