Sitting is the New Smoking 🚬- Reminder Buzzer In the Chair
Sedentary Lifestyle - Not Good for Seniors Ha! We got a problem with a senior at home. She just sits most of her time in a chair. Her movements out of the chair is less. One reason is her self talk that she's past her prime and it's time either to sit and watch T.V or be in the bed. Her logic seems hard for me to decipher. My fair guess is that many senior citizens get into that rut as they loose the appetite for life. I asked ChatGPT for a solution and it gave some generic ones - such as, have patience, give them some activity which they are interested, take them outside, etc. So, today while I was thinking of this, I felt there should be some way to easily remind her that she has sat on the chair for more than 30 minutes. And, this is a problem. How on earth can we regularly follow up, see that she steps out of the chair! And, this is when this epiphany got on me! What if there's a buzzer fixed on the chair which alerts on when time is exceeded? Here's h...