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High-tech sensors help kids keep eye on aging parents 

| Associated Press
Each time 81-year-old Bill Dworsky or his 80-year-old wife Dorothy opens the refrigerator, closes the bathroom door or lifts the lid on a pill container, tiny sensors in their San Francisco home make notes on a digital logbook.
Dorothy Dworsky, 80, sitting next to her husband, Bill, 81, shows a watch she wears that keeps track of her movements at their home in San Francisco. Each time Bill or Dorothy opens the refrigerator, closes the bathroom door or lifts the lid on a pill container, tiny sensors in their home make notes on a digital logbook, which their son Phil Dworsky monitors daily on his smartphone.

 

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