GPS tracking devices are to be fitted to dementia patients in the first trial of its kind in Britain.
A total of 20 patients from the Thames Valley and Somerset areas are taking part in the trial which enables their movements to be monitored on a map via a secure website.
Dr Rupert McShane, a consultant in old age psychiatry at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust said the new technology could provide patients with more freedom to go out safely
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Microchips next then!
And then they start overdiagnosing dementia?
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