Any suggestions on wearable technology for seniors?

I can understand, as I went through something like this over a decade ago. But too much information can also cause more anxiety, and bodies don't always fluctuate in ways that produce data that can be relied on, as CM explained very succinctly but with a light-hearted tone.

As to the heart valve and breathing cessation issue, I think you'd be better off to see a pulmonary doctor and ask for an overnight sleep study. Their equipment is medically designed for specific situations like that, while the hot shot tech gizmos aren't to my knowledge used for medical testing on which decisions can be made by professionals.

You're wise to be alert and concerned about these issues though, but other than the blood pressure machines and pulse oxes, I think I'd rely on the professional equipment doctors use.

Frankly, you're looking for a lot of information, which might not all be available on one of the OTC tech devices. And more frankly, I wouldn't rely on something so important with results generated by a consumer device which probably has a lot of components made outside of the US, and may or may not meet specific standards, or be maintained or calibrated properly, especially since its my understanding that these are made for athletes who want to monitor literally their every breath, not for elders with different medical conditions.

Another basic question is whether or not your GM will actually wear this device.

Caregiver34, like some of the writers had said, this might be information overload.

Plus your Grandmother might feel at night time she should take all her "jewelry" off, including whatever type of wristband item. Some wristband's could get snagged in one's hair at night depending on how a person sleeps.

That has been the toughest lesson for me to get them my head. The information is only good if you have something you can do with it.

If nothing will change as a result of knowing more...then the effort to know more is useless. Save yourself the heartache

OMG who wants to know all that unless they are in the ICU

Er...

So you find your all-singing all-dancing bells-and-whistles gizmo. And you install it on your - uncomplaining and compliant? - grandma. And the gizmo tells you, say 15-30 times per night, that your grandmother's heart rhythm is not all it might be and that her respiration varies outside normal parameters and that at 4:13 a.m. her O2 level dropped (probably because her hand flopped outside the bedclothes and partially dislodged the monitor).

And then? Watcher gonna do about it?

I understand - in fact, I distinctly remember - the insatiable desire for precise, reliable information at all times. But I did eventually learn that before you go digging for more data you need to have some idea of what you want it for.

Are you happy with your grandmother's cardiologist? Are you happy that in general she is well taken care of?

Has she had a sleep study? What has her doctor recommended? Does she use a C-pap machine at night?