In earlier blogs, I've mentioned a variety of in home technology advances to assist people caring for aging parents who hope to remain living independently. Among these are safety tools for monitoring the home environment intended to help seniors who are "aging in place".
One thing that doesn't come up enough in the discussion of these tools is the question of ethics. How invasive should family members, or monitoring services, be allowed to be? There are people looking at both the technology and the surrounding ethical issues. One such group is the Ethical Technology in the Homes of Seniors (ETHOS) effort underway at Indiana University. The focus of the ETHOS team is developing tools and guidelines to protect the privacy of senors living at home. According to the team, seniors often underestimate the risks to privacy involved with technology use.
You can read more about there efforts by clicking on this link http://ethos.indiana.edu/.
Eric Tinsley
Alan Stanford 
Jean Bandos
Karen Kelsey
Natalie Crohn
George Slater
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