Can a piece of software look after your elderly parent?

Computers are increasingly guiding decisions about elder care - and tracking everything from toilet visits to whether someone has bathed

• Care bots' are on the rise and replacing human caregivers

Kellye Franklin recalls the devastation when her now 81-year-old father, a loyal air force veteran, tried to make his own breakfast one morning. Seven boxes of open cereal on the living room floor with milk poured directly into every one of them. He would later be diagnosed with moderate to severe dementia.

Yet Franklin, 39, who is her dad's only child and his primary caregiver, does not worry about that repeating now.