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[28 January 2008 - CBS News] For Those Eager To Grow Old In The Comfort Of Home, High-Tech Solutions ... For Sandy Davis and her 89-year-old mother, Margaret, the idea of growing old together comes with both comfort and fear. "See, my brother wants us to move to an assisted-care program," Sandy says. "But I don't want to," Margaret said. Sandy is convinced their age-old problem could be improved with some new-age ideas.
"The technology is there, we just need to figure out how we can orchestrate it to live comfortably," Sandy said. That's exactly what Prof. Gregory Abowd of Georgia Tech is trying to do in an experimental home, full of high-tech tools to help the elderly. For example, motion detectors throughout the house track a resident's daily movements and send them to an unobtrusive photo frame located in any relative's home. It's connected to the Internet. More