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Lost and Found: Japan Tags Dementia Sufferers With Barcodes

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 10 2016, @03:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-found,-please-return-to dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost -- tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes.

A company in Iruma, north of Tokyo, developed tiny nail stickers, each of which carries a unique identity number to help concerned families find missing loved ones, according to the city's social welfare office.

The adhesive QR-coded seals for nails -- part of a free service launched this month and a first in Japan -- measure just one centimetre (0.4 inches) in size.

"Being able to attach the seals on nails is a great advantage," a city worker told AFP."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20161208171158/https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:39PM (#439738)

    Absolutely. People in that condition definitely have the potential to be extremely dangerous in the same way as those that are mentally ill are.

    It's absolutely OK to shoot them if lesser measures haven't worked. It's unfortunate and regrettable, but, let's be honest, we give cops firearms for a reason. And that reason is to shoot people when lesser measures haven't worked. If we're going to require that the cops know that the person isn't dangerous due to a medical condition, then there's no point in even handing them a gun.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:11AM (#439838)

    Seriously? People in comas are "extremely dangerous" and may not only need tasered, but shot as well?

    Have I run afoul of Poe's Law?