Guardian system for a cognitively-impaired individual
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1. A guardian system for a cognitively-impaired individual comprising:
- a wrist phone system having a global positioning system and an identifying device that communicates with a mobile network;
a personal digital assistant phone tethered to the wrist phone system to communicate with and to provide input to program the wrist phone system to record voice files that are repeated as reminders for meals and medication and display a picture of a location for the meal and medication tasks;
wherein a warning message is sent to a receiving device based on communications within the guardian system;
wherein a warning message is sent to the receiving device in response to the individual'"'"'s location determined by the global positioning system;
wherein when the cognitively-impaired individual wearing the wrist phone system strays beyond a boundary area the wrist phone system provides instructions to the cognitively-impaired individual how to return to the boundary area.
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Abstract
A guardian system for cognitively-impaired individuals. The system includes a wrist phone system that has a display, a global positioning system, and a SIM card. The wrist phone system is tethered to a PDA phone so that the PDA phone is able to input information into the wrist phone system. In addition, the PDA phone and wrist phone system can communicate with one another and with monitoring devices such that if a warning or emergency condition is provided by the individual or by a monitor a warning message can be sent to a caregiver to address the emergency.
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1. A guardian system for a cognitively-impaired individual comprising:
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a wrist phone system having a global positioning system and an identifying device that communicates with a mobile network; a personal digital assistant phone tethered to the wrist phone system to communicate with and to provide input to program the wrist phone system to record voice files that are repeated as reminders for meals and medication and display a picture of a location for the meal and medication tasks; wherein a warning message is sent to a receiving device based on communications within the guardian system; wherein a warning message is sent to the receiving device in response to the individual'"'"'s location determined by the global positioning system; wherein when the cognitively-impaired individual wearing the wrist phone system strays beyond a boundary area the wrist phone system provides instructions to the cognitively-impaired individual how to return to the boundary area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A guardian system for a cognitively-impaired individual comprising:
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a wrist phone system having a global positioning system and an identifying device that communicates with a mobile network; the wrist phone system also has a sensor that senses when the wrist phone system is removed from the cognitively-impaired individual; a personal digital assistant phone tethered to the wrist phone system to communicate with and to provide input to program the wrist phone system to record voice files that are repeated as reminders for meals and medication and display a picture of a location for the meal and medication tasks; wherein a warning message is sent to a receiving device based on communications within the guardian system; wherein when the wrist phone system is removed from the cognitively-impaired individual the wrist phone system sends a warning message to the receiving device indicating that the wrist phone system has been removed; wherein the wrist phone system has an alarm button that when activated causes the warning message to be sent.
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