On March 26, 2019 at 18:30, juliejacobson said...
AS for me, I would like to know what my mom has in the fridge and what she has been eating or not eating. She has dementia and doesn't eat. Is she even opening the fridge in the first place? Does she open it for a long time as if trying to figure out what to eat, and then close the door without grabbing anything?
I would like to have that information in the same place (app) I keep all my other mom-monitoring stuff, not in a separate fridge-specific app.
Seeing what my mother went through looking after my grandmother, I could see this being useful. The couple of potential issues I see are, first, putting technology in the home of someone with dementia could be a bigger problem. Maybe implement the control system primarily to monitor but leave devices so they can still manually operate them? Second issue is more of just a question of cost. Wouldn’t people that can afford a control system for a parent more likely be able to afford a part time care taker? Especially since a system wouldn’t make a dementia patient independent. It’s only prolonging their need of full time care. These are just thoughts.
I think many use cases will reveal themselves in the coming years. In the meantime, why NOT hope for APIs and SDKs and other tools to integrate?
There’s nothing wrong with this. But at the same time, it’s always good to remember that just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should.
