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Old age in the technology age – New devices to monitor health and well-being at home a growing new sector

Talking pill bottles that remind you to take your medicine. A wristwatch that can help find a wandering Alzheimer’s patient. Smart Band-Aids that check your temperature and heartbeat. Sensors in bedsheets that monitor sleep apnea and snoring. Motion detectors on doors and furniture that sense when you’re up and about, when you stay in bed, and whether you’ve fallen. Robots that help disabled people get up from a chair and walk down the hall.

They sound like sci-fi, or entries from a Sharper Image catalog circa 2015, but they’re technologies that exist today. With the United States’ population rapidly aging, electronic devices to monitor seniors’ health and well-being at home are a growing new sector. A few are on the market now; more may hit the U.S. market as soon as next year.

Carolyn Said, Chronicle Staff Writer

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