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Technology in nursing homes: E-tagging of seniors boosts safety but is it dignified?

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Patients at some nursing homes here are being tagged and their movements tracked round the clock, in a controversial practice that has drawn mixed reactions.

At least three nursing homes and a senior care centre in Singapore have been tracking the movement of seniors within their facilities by tagging them with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, similar to the technology used to track animals.

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