I wrote a post a little while ago about using GPS for locating elders suffering Alzheimer’s or Dementia. Since then I have already seen 3 more Silver Alerts on the highway signs and in every case the missing elder was driving a vehicle, so in every case a GPS system on the vehicle would have probably ended the crisis. In these cases, there was no need for inconvenient GPS ankle bracelets or other wearable systems that have been proposed by some.  Not that a system like that wouldn’t have a place as well, but I can say that regardless of his condition, I doubt I could ever get my father to wear a GPS tracker, but I might be able to get him to install a system in his vehicle.

You may also notice that avoided the term “GPS tracking system” for this application and instead used the term “locating.” I think this is appropriate because unlike a fleet management application, the purpose is not to monitor a vehicles activities, but simply to be able to locate it when a crisis has occurred.