Seniors

GPS trackers for seniors

Wearable location for a parent who may not carry a smartphone. Kin is not a medical-alert or dementia device.

• How to choose the best GPS tracker for seniors

  Best-of lists here usually rank pendants we do not make. This page is the fork: medical alert versus a family pin — then the criteria for the pin.

• GPS trackers for seniors

  For the person who still walks the same loop and would rather the family had a pin than a panic. Worn, consented, not a hospital device.

• GPS trackers for elderly parents

  How location devices are used in family care, what to consider before setting one up, and the limits worth being clear about first.

• Medical alert versus a GPS tracker

  Pendants and PERS services exist to summon help. Locators exist to answer where someone is. Mixing the two in a search box is how families buy the wrong device.