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Rayna Jacobson visits with her father, Jack, an Alzheimer's patient, at Oatfield Estates in a suburb of Portland, Ore. When she isn't with him she feels reassured, because residents are tagged and tracked.
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Rayna Jacobson visits with her father, Jack, an Alzheimer's patient, at Oatfield Estates in a suburb of Portland, Ore. When she isn't with him she feels reassured, because residents are tagged and tracked.
A screen grab from a website that lets family of elderly residents at Oatfield Estates monitor where their loved one is and what their living habits are.
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A screen grab from a website that lets family of elderly residents at Oatfield Estates monitor where their loved one is and what their living habits are.
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sometimes late at night, Rayna Jacobson needs to know her dad is OK. He lives only across town, but he's 83 and has Alzheimer's disease. She worries.

So she logs onto the website for the assisted-living facility where he lives and sees with her own eyes: a little icon of a figure in bed. It means her father's asleep."