Deputy sees GPS as way to protect elderly

After telling how his friend's elderly father had been lost for several months, Huang Daifang, an NPC deputy from Jiangxi province, suggested that governments should buy GPS products for families with older members.

"If we could have pinned a GPS chip in the old man's clothes, he might have been found easily and his family members would not have been worried," said Huang, who is chairman of Tellhow Group, a technology company in Jiangxi.

To prevent senior citizens' becoming lost - especially those older than 70 or who have Alzheimer's disease - Huang called on the government to pay money to provide GPS products.