Special Shoes for Senile People Inspired Sex Workers

One of the problems faced by dementia is forgetting the way home, so often lost. That problem can now be overcome with special shoes senile people are inspired by the shoes of the sex workers in ancient Roman times.

At that time, sex workers wear shoes that could leave a trail marked "follow me" so that people easily find it. The unique footprint imprinted in the soil or sand that dilakuinya, thanks to a special design on the heel.

Now that the streets are no longer a sandy soil, the right shoe design is no longer effective to leave a unique imprint. In order for the existence of fixed shoe wearer easily tracked, the traces were now replaced with the technology of Global Positioning System (GPS).

A shoe company, GTX Corp. recently introduced a shoe equipped with GPS technology so that the existence of the wearer more easily tracked. Just like shoes prostitutes of ancient Roman times, the technology is also installed in the right shoe.

But this time the target users are no longer the sex workers, but those with dementia or dementia that is often lost due to forgetting the way home. With these shoes, which began senile elderly will be easily detected when he was confused.

GPS device in a special shoe senile person is connected by radio waves to other devices that are held by the family or caregiver. Both devices can be arranged, so that the alarm sound if the elderly who take a walk outside the secure area outside the housing complex for example.

"Innovation is very helpful in the early stages of dementia who are at high risk for getting lost. At this stage, people can get confused senile despite his own home and then go out and actually lost," said Professor Andrew Carle, a neurologist at George Mason University, as quoted from FOXNews, Friday (28/10/2011).