The E-Textile eVolution

“Imagine if your aunt, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, has wandered out the front door and you don’t know when she left or how long she’s been gone,” begins 12-year-old Abbi Paul, a student at Argyll Scotland’s Dunoon Grammar School, in her pitch to a panel of industry leaders in London earlier this summer. “Did you know that 50% of wandering dementia patients die if not found within 24 hours of leaving home alone?” she asks. “What if your grandfather, who lives alone, has fallen and no one knows for a day, leaving him on the floor unable to get up?” continues her classmate, Rory Orland, also 12 years old.