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Arlyn Anderson grasped her father's hand.
艾林·安德森握著父親的手。
"A nursing home would be safer, Dad," she told him. "No way," Jim Anderson interjected.
告訴爸爸說：“爸爸，養老院會更安全”，“不可能，”吉姆·安德森插嘴說。
At 91, he wanted to remain in the woodsy Minnesota cottage he and his wife had built on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, where she had died in his arms just a year before.
父親91歲，想繼續住在他和妻子在明尼托卡湖岸邊建造的明尼蘇達州森林小屋里。這個地方是一年前妻子死在他懷里的地方。
Arlyn had moved from California back to Minnesota two decades earlier to be near her parents.
20年前，為了離父母近一些，艾林從加利福尼亞搬回了明尼蘇達州。
Now, in 2013, she was fiftysomething and finding that her father's decline was all-consuming
2013年，50多歲的艾林發現父親的病癥讓她有些體力不支。
Her father—an inventor, pilot, sailor, and general Mr. Fix-It—started experiencing bouts of paranoia, a sign of Alzheimer's, in his mid-eighties.
父親是一名發明家、飛行員、水手，也是普通的修理師——父親在80多歲的時候開始出現妄想癥，這是老年癡呆癥的一種癥狀。
Arlyn's house was a 40-minute drive from the cottage, and she had been relying on a patchwork of technology to keep tabs on her dad.
艾林的房子離小屋只有40分鐘的車程，她一直依靠各種各樣的技術來監視父親的一舉一動。
She set an open laptop on the counter so she could chat with him on Skype.
她把打開的筆記本電腦放在臺子上，這樣她就可以用Skype（網絡電話）和他聊天。
She installed a camera in his kitchen and another in his bedroom so she could check whether he had fallen.
她在父親的廚房和臥室各安裝了一臺攝像機，以便檢查父親是否跌倒。
When she read about a new eldercare service called Care.coach a few weeks after broaching the subject of a nursing home, it piqued her interest.
在提出養老院話題的幾個星期后，艾林讀到一項名為Care.coach的老年護理新服務，這激起了她的興趣。
For about $200 a month, a computerized avatar (controlled remotely by a human caregiver) would watch over a homebound person 24 hours a day;
一個用電腦處理的替身(由看護人遠程控制)每天24小時監視家里的人，每月大約200美元。
Arlyn paid that much for just nine hours of in-home help. She signed up immediately.
艾林花了200美元只夠請9個小時的家政服務。她立即注冊了。
