Smart shoe insoles aims to help track patients with Alzheimer's disease - WTOP.com: As doctors explore why more seniors are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, science is coming up with a way to help counteract a major problem related to the disease -- wandering -- with GPS technology.
So far, the problem hasn't been about applying GPS technology to finding patients, says George Mason University professor Andrew Carle. It was finding a way to hide it from Alzheimer's sufferers prone to taking off unfamiliar items, such as a bracelet, that contained the GPS.
But what about shoes?
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