Sensors and Monitoring Services Seek To Assist Seniors

Philips Lifeline, a medical alert service, is one of many offered to help seniors who are living on their own. The Personal Help Button and Communicator devices pictured above can alert work with a customer's home phone.

Press photo/Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

In this week's All Tech Considered, companies are providing a growing roster of services for seniors that can monitor their health, movement and habits — in their own home.

In addition to services discussed in the segment like Adaptive Home, here's more information on proximity sensors and other tech related to the piece.

• Philips Lifeline, Healthsense eNeighbor and iReminder are just a few of the products available to help seniors in the home.
• Microsoft is doing testing of assisted-living tech in New York City.
• Three New York Times items about technology to keep seniors safe in the home. Some issues: privacy, cost and whether insurance will cover these technologies.
• More on sensor research.
• Can you detect a heart attack via the electrical fields in the room?
• CBS News on tracking systems and medical monitoring.

Have you used any systems like this? Would you?  Let us know what you think in the comments.