Monitoring Mom and Dad

IN the wee hours of July 14, Elizabeth Roach, a 70-year-old widow, got out of bed ...went to the kitchen, plugged in the coffee pot, showered and took her weight and blood pressure.

She opened her medicine cabinet at 12:21 and closed it at 12:22. 

All this information — including her exact weight (126 pounds) and blood pressure reading (139/98) — was transmitted via the Internet to her 44-year-old son, Michael Murdock, who reviewed it from his home office in suburban Denver.


In the general scheme of life, parents are the ones who keep tabs on the children. But now, a raft of new technology is making it possible for adult children to monitor to a stunningly precise degree the daily movements and habits of their aging parents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/garden/29parents.html?_r=1