Patients with memory problems being treated by Addenbrooke’s Hospital in
Cambridge are being given pagers to remind them to take medicine and carry out
household chores. The pagers are connected to a computer programmed with the
patients’ daily routine. At the appropriate times they send messages to the
pagers reminding the owners to take medicine, or do a routine household task.
The first 15 patients to try the system all reported they had benefited from
it.
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