Tagging The Elderly!
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Colin Phillips
At the Start
I am already wearing mine!!
archie
Senior Jockey
The latter, if anything. He was in a session of some parliamentary committee and was asked if the technology used for tagging criminals might have any other uses for the general benefit of society. Off the top of his head he mentioned the elderly and the very young could, in some circumstances, be tagged by their families/carers if they were prone to becoming confused and wandering off. It was an off the cuff remark rather than any policy declaration yet it became headline news for some of the media.
From having been known by our employee numbers, rather than our names, in the Saudi Oil Co, I've never considered it that far off when we will all be microchipped at birth, bringing us nicely into line with so many forms of animal control.
The essence of the idea isn't entirely bad. One of my ex-work colleagues' fathers died of hypothermia when rambling, confused, out in his PJs one snowy night. He was known to do midnight rambles at home with his family, but somehow he got out and died for it, being found on their driveway by the postman. There are so many people doing their nuts at home with demented parents who aren't always that old, that perhaps something like this would give them some peace of mind. My mother, in her nursing home, is regularly visited at night by the demented who have no idea whose room they're in - one of them (she couldn't see which gender!) tried crawling into bed with her at 3.00 a.m. a few nights ago. Imagine trying to cope at home with such sad cases, where escaping to the outside so often ends fatally.
The essence of the idea isn't entirely bad. One of my ex-work colleagues' fathers died of hypothermia when rambling, confused, out in his PJs one snowy night. He was known to do midnight rambles at home with his family, but somehow he got out and died for it, being found on their driveway by the postman. There are so many people doing their nuts at home with demented parents who aren't always that old, that perhaps something like this would give them some peace of mind. My mother, in her nursing home, is regularly visited at night by the demented who have no idea whose room they're in - one of them (she couldn't see which gender!) tried crawling into bed with her at 3.00 a.m. a few nights ago. Imagine trying to cope at home with such sad cases, where escaping to the outside so often ends fatally.
simmo
Senior Jockey
Haven't had a filling at the dentists recently then Songsheet? :suspect:
Merlin the Magician
At the Start
Supposedely they have them in TESCO'S and other retailers on the electrical.. product that you purchase........I read this back lat year..........so beware you been warned..... :angy:
archie
Senior Jockey
I never knew him but my wife's father, during the onset of Alzheimer's disease, was prone to wandering off. He once ended up in Holyhead (from Chester) so I can see the benefit of some sort of tracking system in cases like his.
