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Ask HN: How do you watch for health emergencies for elder family members?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you watch for health emergencies for elder family members?

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Silent Call has an alerting system that covers six unique inputs of fire, Carbon monoxide, phone ring, sound, door bell, and weather alert. For a bedridden family member and monitoring thereof, I use the doorbell transmitter unit on the Oxygen generator alarm, the sound alert unit as the panic button for my elder that is bed-ridden. And another sound alert for the gastrointestinal feeding unit. And another for pressu…

This is great; you should make a full package which people can buy as a complete solution. Start a company!

The one thing which i would really really like is to have a Computer Vision ML system which can detect changes in demeanour eg. face discoloration(lack of blood flow), droopy eyes, tremors in hands, unsteadiness on feet, greater than usual stooping etc. I am the sole caretaker for an elderly parent and am always looking out for these (and other) external markers. The key to elderly care is constant monitoring to anticipate and forestall problems.

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