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Why an app? Friends and family should be making these decisions and helping out. There's no need for a technological solution. I get life isn't perfect and neit

Why an app? Friends and family should be making these decisions and helping out. There's no need for a technological solution. I get life isn't perfect and neither are people, but that means software isn't either.

jarvuschris 8y ago
Ideally an app could be a big _help_ to friends and family (assuming someone has those). I'm surprised the author didn't get into this question at all, they sort of touched on the app being an alternative to friends and family controlling your life, but if folks are helping you manager you affairs they'd need to be able to influence the app too. For example, what if you need to start living in a new location afterwards? It makes sense that you would need to build trust with the app on your own ahead of time (or maybe just with apps in general), but folks helping manage your affairs will need access to do things like update your "fences" To your point though -- there is a need for a technological solution. Friends and family should be helping make the decision "grandpa shouldn't being leaving this geofence between 8pm and 6am". After than, watching grandpa all night every night, trying to talk to him first when he starts wandering, having to find out and go find him when he does...these are all things where a technology solution CAN offer huge help and relief to the friends and family
beat 8y ago
Just how much are friends and family expected to attend to someone whose mind is in decline? My grandfather had Alzheimer's. We attended to him more and more as he got worse and worse. But one day, he went down to the basement while grandma was napping, and was doing something that involved a chunk of wood and a piece of pipe in a vise, heating it with a torch while beating on it with a hammer. Luckily, it just set off the smoke alarms and the fire department came. He could have burned the house down with him and grandma in it. That's what happens when you leave someone with Alzheimer's unsupervised for a few minutes. If software can help when they aren't being actively supervised, I'm all for it.
cmiles74 8y ago
It's painful to admit, but many of those people may have passed away already. In my own experience with my own relatives, they have all been in their nineties and in many cases their children had already passed away or moved out of state. Many friends are near the same age and have fallen out of touch, etc.

jarvuschris 8y ago

Ideally an app could be a big _help_ to friends and family (assuming someone has those). I'm surprised the author didn't get into this question at all, they sort of touched on the app being an alternative to friends and family controlling your life, but if folks are helping you manager you affairs they'd need to be able to influence the app too. For example, what if you need to start living in a new location afterwards? It makes sense that you would need to build trust with the app on your own ahead of time (or maybe just with apps in general), but folks helping manage your affairs will need access to do things like update your "fences" To your point though -- there is a need for a technological solution. Friends and family should be helping make the decision "grandpa shouldn't being leaving this geofence between 8pm and 6am". After than, watching grandpa all night every night, trying to talk to him first when he starts wandering, having to find out and go find him when he does...these are all things where a technology solution CAN offer huge help and relief to the friends and family

beat 8y ago

Just how much are friends and family expected to attend to someone whose mind is in decline? My grandfather had Alzheimer's. We attended to him more and more as he got worse and worse. But one day, he went down to the basement while grandma was napping, and was doing something that involved a chunk of wood and a piece of pipe in a vise, heating it with a torch while beating on it with a hammer. Luckily, it just set off the smoke alarms and the fire department came. He could have burned the house down with him and grandma in it. That's what happens when you leave someone with Alzheimer's unsupervised for a few minutes. If software can help when they aren't being actively supervised, I'm all for it.

cmiles74 8y ago

It's painful to admit, but many of those people may have passed away already. In my own experience with my own relatives, they have all been in their nineties and in many cases their children had already passed away or moved out of state. Many friends are near the same age and have fallen out of touch, etc.