The Alzheimer’s Association (Chicago, IL) recently announced a new mobile monitoring system called “the Comfort Zone.”  It uses wireless connections to link a GPS monitor that an AD patient wears to that person’s emergency medical records and a 24/7 monitoring service.  In programming the GPS to certain safety zones, the service can send a phone or email alert to a caregiver in 15 to 30 minutes.  The service costs $42.99 per month with a $45 activation fee.  In effect this is a car-finding “LoJack” for memory-impaired people.   MORE