Alzheimer's GPS Device

When a loved one has Alzheimer's, it can be tough to keep track of them. But now a new device is helping out.

A company is putting a GPS tracker in something everyone wears, a shoe. And this hi-tech shoe should help keep track of them even if they wander off.

When a loved one suffers from Alzheimer's, they don't always know where they are or even where they want to go. So oftentimes they wander off. This can create a lot of heart ache and headaches for the family members taking care of them, not to mention be dangerous for the person involved. There are tracking devices already implanted in watches, bracelets and other pieces of jewelry. The problem is that oftentimes if an Alzheimer's patient doesn't recognize the watch as their own once they take it off. But the company making this shoe, and their medical experts, feel that since shoes are changed all the time this won't be as much of an issue.

And being a hi-tech device, there are all sorts of things you can do with it to help out. You can set it so that if an Alzheimer's patient wonders outside a certain area---let's say the yard or neighborhood---the shoe will notify you. And you can then track them down and bring them home, keeping them safe and you relieved.

The cost is expected to be around 300 dollars and the shoes should be released this month by the footwear firm Aetrex Worldwide.