Over the hill - and then which way? Satnav comes to the Zimmer Frame

Their legs aren't what they used to be and nor, sadly, is their memory. But now one nursing home thinks it has the hi-tech answer to help its elderly residents get around more easily - a satnav device for their Zimmer Frames.

Residents of the Betuweland nursing centre in the Dutch village Bemmel have been trying out the new navigation system for their frames for several months.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-522169/Over-hill--way-Satnav-comes-Zimmer-Frame.html

life alert (with link)

The Life Alert Classic plan is perfect for seniors and the elderly. Trusted by thousands of Life Alert members for over two decades, Life Alert Classic provides round the clock protection against medical emergencies (such as a fall, stroke or heart attack), fire (via monitored smoke alarms) and carbon monoxide poisoning (via monitored CO alarms). This plan also includes a 911 cell phone for protection when you are not at home.

http://www.lifealert.com/classic.html

Mind-map for health care topic

Question

How can the elderly and their family share the sense of insecurity and security in everyday life?

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The ideal way of family has changed, and people who lived in the large family became in the minority in recent years. To part and live from near relatives became general.
However, the elderly people who live separately from the child and the grandchild seem want to share a part of life with them.
On the other hand, there are lots of families of the child generation who worry about the health of them who part and live as well.
The number of cases that the senior citizen cannot call help and die by any causes has increased.
The number also of those who voluntarily choose living alone is increasing in the old, and it is regarded that the number of potential lonely death preliminary groups keeps increasing every year.
Besides, it is the fact that some elderly people are not good for adapting themselves to regional community.
In addition, it is a reality for the people who live alone in the foreign country that he or she lives with uneasiness about when get injured or big sick.
Then, is it possible for them to communicate with their family, friends or even neighbors by designing something?
Is it possible for them to share their health and mental condition in order to share the sense of security and insecurity with each other?

Third topic

How can design contribute to keep our health in everyday life.

The number of doctors in Japan is about 290,000 of the 2005.
The number is absolutely insufficient compared with the average in the advanced country.
In the reality, as the solution of doctor shortage, it is the fact that it is depending on exceeding at working hours of each individual doctor,　a high sense of mission and the effort of the individual medic.
The present age medicine has turned into the religion. People are blindly overconfident in the medical treatment, and worshiping this. People take medical treatment as the only god to save our lives.
There is a surprising report in 1976. The doctor came out on strike of 52 days in capital Bogota in Colombia, and all did not treat excluding the emergency medical care.
As a result, the mortality rate has decreased for the period of the strike by 35%. A considerably similar example has reported by Los Angeles and Israel.
If unnecessary treatment is not done to the slight illness patient, the report means the doctor can concentrate on the life rescue.
If we can care for our health in daily life, such a severe environment for the doctor might be able to be improved. Of course, it will become our own profit.

Second topic

How does natural-perspective influence on our life style and society?

What is real nature like? we never know what real nature is in our contemporary society.
Nature is a vague word.
In the city, we do not put things around which can no be controlled. We afraid of facing nature which can not be controlled as you want.
We live by excluding nature completely from surroundings. However, people call for nature.

Of course, natural-perspective that we have might be different for each. It depends environment where we grew up, culture, religion, memory and so on.
For instance, for me who grew up in Japan, the scenery of the town with the utility pole and the one of the coast with the tetra jar is natural.