GPS for Wandering Dog-Walker Shows Dementia Challenge
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Gill Stoneham had fallen, and she couldn’t get up.
Her husband, Bernard, saw she hadn’t moved for 11 minutes and knew something was wrong. That’s because Gill, 73, who has vascular dementia, carries a GPS device the size of a pager that enables him to track her movements online. Alarmed, he went out and found her stuck in a muddy field near their home in Chichester, England. She had slipped while walking her cocker spaniel Oliver.