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Spy Apps – A Blessing for Senior Citizens

With age come many complications. Health ailments are the worst of our worries. One day we are fit as a fiddle and the next day we have aged a century. And whether we like it or not, our frail and weak condition makes us vulnerable and helpless hence making us dependent on our loved ones for support and care. While hiring a trained medical helper to care for our elderly can be expensive, asking relatives to extend a helping hand is difficult too especially since everyone is so busy these days with their own lives. However, with the fast age of technology, most of us have started looking for digital solutions to ease our worries. One of which is the use of spying and monitoring applications like TheOneSpy to track the whereabouts of our loved ones.

1. Maintaining their space

While we don’t have time to look after the elderly 24 hours a day, similarly, most elderly people still like to maintain their space and individuality by usually living alone and not becoming dependent on anyone. However, with their ailing health conditions, it’s hard to leave them alone. But with monitoring applications you can now sit back and let the elderly be on their own in a safe and monitored environment. Spy applications can be installed onto phones and other gadgets to keep track of their activities and whereabouts.

2. Tracking their location

This is especially important if any of your loved ones is suffering from degenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s, dementia, Huntington’s disease or Parkinson’s disease. With forgetfulness, there is a high chance that the patient may wander off and get lost. On the other hand with conditions that degenerate behavioral activities, the patient may get hurt or have a mishap. In either case, it’s recommended that being the guardian; you keep a track of their location. Monitoring applications can be fed with information and routes that the elderly patients are aware and accustomed to. Any deviation from the set route can send you a notification. Moreover, monitoring applications when tracking individuals keep time logs as well. So in case the patient has been gone a long time, you can call and make sure they are well and not hurt or lost.

3. Keep track of health conditions

Sometimes elderly patients can be stubborn about revealing health problems. This could either be because they don’t want to worry you or could be because it is hard for them to come to terms with their aging status. In either scenario, you don’t have to worry about being in the dark about their health conditions. First of all, with the help of monitoring applications and supporting gadgets like fitness trackers you can track their heart rate, sleeping patterns and physical activity. Moreover, you can also remotely add timers and reminders to their gadgets about medicine times and hospital visits so that they don’t miss any dose or doctor’s appointment. And hindrance in their schedule will automatically lead to notifications being sent to you for further investigation.

4. Catching scam artists

Elderly people may not be the most tech-savvy people you know therefore making them vulnerable to different online scams like identity theft and credit card scams. Often criminals tend to target the vulnerable lot of our society of which elderly people are often victimized. Credit card scams are the most frequent of criminal offenses that the elderly have been found to be engulfed in. Advertisements that generally appear to be some enticing deal online or on the television would, in reality, be a trap to steal money. Similarly, elderly people may trust different social media websites too much which would jeopardize their identity hence leading to identity theft.

Conclusion

Technology is utilized properly can be the best blessing anyone can ever ask for. When it comes to dealing with elderly people, one can often find themselves in a difficult posting that would compromise your relationship with them. Therefore, it is recommended that you use monitoring applications which will not only reduce your concern and anxiety but help you build and deal with elderly patients better. Also, the best part about monitoring applications is that you can reap their benefits from a different city, country or even region altogether due to the advanced age of technology and communication which has everything and anything connected on the grid.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Bethany Janick .