{"id":19161,"date":"2021-11-23T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19161"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:22:24","slug":"when-the-eye-on-older-patients-is-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19161","title":{"rendered":"When the Eye on Older Patients Is a Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sofie Kodner for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son\u2019s home in Grand Rapids, barefoot and coatless. Her destination was unknown even to herself.<\/p>\n<p>Wurdock was several years into a dementia diagnosis that turned out to be Alzheimer\u2019s disease. By luck, her son woke up and found her before she stepped too far down the street. As the Alzheimer\u2019s progressed, so did her wandering and with it, her children\u2019s anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was losing it,\u201d said her daughter, Deb Weathers-Jablonski. \u201cI needed to keep her safe, especially at night.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/high-tech-monitoring-dementia-patients\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sofie Kodner for Kaiser Health News) In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19162,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}