Monitoring Elderly Parents - NYTimes.com

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It used to be that parents kept tabs on their children. But The Times reports this morning on new technology making it possible for adult children to monitor, to a stunningly precise degree, the daily movements and habits of their aging parents.

The purpose is to provide enough supervision to make it possible for elderly people to stay in their homes rather than move to an assisted-living facility or nursing home, and in truth many of the systems are godsends for families. But, as with any parent-child relationship, all loving intentions can be tempered by issues of control, role-reversal, guilt and a little deception — enough loaded stuff to fill a psychology syllabus.
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