Technology capable of detecting when a flat or refrigerator door opens could help Hong Kong authorities remotely check on whether all is well with elderly residents living alone, a minister has said.<\/p>\n
Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han also said on Saturday that the government was testing using wearable devices as part of early detection measures for high-risk cases.<\/p>\n
He raised the idea just days after another elderly resident was discovered dead in their home, the latest in a recent spate of such incidents, triggering concerns about older Hongkongers living by themselves.<\/p>\n
The minister stressed that the government was committed to providing support for elderly residents and carers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are currently exploring the use of wearable systems or other technologies that we have seen in the market,\u201d he told a radio programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is rather simple, for example, by detecting the opening and closing of your refrigerator door or the door of your flat to assess whether you are living a normal life or maybe experiencing some problems. In that case, we can try to contact you promptly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology capable of detecting when a flat or refrigerator door opens could help Hong Kong authorities remotely check…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,14862,33038,33036,3448,33037,85,46,33032,33035,43,6120,3421,14857,33033,33034,33039,30090,3381],"class_list":{"0":"post-41035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-chief-executive-john-lee-ka-chiu","10":"tag-chris-sun-yuk-han","11":"tag-elderly-residents","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-housing-department","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-kwai-chung","17":"tag-kwun-tong","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-policy-address","20":"tag-public-housing","21":"tag-scmp","22":"tag-sha-tin","23":"tag-social-welfare","24":"tag-tenement-buildings","25":"tag-tseung-kwan-o","26":"tag-wearable-devices"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}