Comment Re:wearable for the wife? (Score 1) 327
Make a little app the detects erratic arm movements
It seems that your mental map of "epileptic" requires a symptom of "movement", possibly even of "erratic movement", or even "flailing about thrashing the landscape and foaming at the mouth".
The OP didn't describe the symptoms of his wife's epilepsy, or even if the symptoms are the same from fit to fit. Many people with epilepsy do not have any noticeable "erratic" movements, twitching, tremor (that's possibly Parkinson's you're thinking about - a different neurological condition) or other physical symptoms. If they happen to be sitting down at the time of taking a fit, then it's quite hard to tell the difference between them having fallen asleep (or drifted off into some inner world of attention) and them having a fit. Even taking 5 minutes to slump to the desk in mid-meeting is hard to distinguish between someone bored to unconsciousness by the Boss and having a fit because their medication is too strong for their particular chemistry that day.
Epilepsy is a multi-symptom disease. Your measurement criterion would only work for one of the less-common cases.