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Edited 22/01/23: Sadly, my colleague's wife's condition has deteriorated to the point where she has near zero mobility, and is likely to need hospis care very soon.
I'm going to leave this thread up, in an edited form, in case someone else can make good use of the information and ideas that people very kindly offered. However, no further replies are needed.
You are more than welcome to link here, too.
Thank you all again x
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Calling out to the electronically minded. It's just possible you might be able to drastically improve someone's life!
I have a colleague whose wife suffers from #ALS. For anyone unfamiliar with this dreadful condition, you can have a read up here: https://www.als.org/understanding-als/what-is-als. Short version is that it's degenerative, cruel and, eventually, terminal.
There are a number of aids that sufferers can use. In this case, a button that can be pressed to summon help when needed. The cruelty here is that the person who needs to use it no longer has the finger strength to do so. [Edit: video removed as it no longer feels appropriate to share].
This is where you might come in. Is there someone out there who can design something better? Something that's soft-touch enough to be useful, but not so soft it causes a bunch of false alarms?
Thank you! x
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