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Project Lifesaver provides protection
POMEROY — A program geared to protect seniors who have a tendency to wander from home is in operation in Meigs County, a cooperative project between the Area Agency on Aging 8 and local law enforcement agencies.
Cathy Ash, AAA8 program manager and project lifesaver trainer, describes Project Lifesaver as a proven radio technology used to tract those who have wondered away and activate a specially trained search and rescue team.
Clients enrolled in Project Lifesaver wear a personalized wristband that emits a tracking signal. When caregivers notify the local Project Lifesaver Law Enforcement agency that the person is missing, a search and rescue team responds to the wanderer’s area and searches with the mobile locator system. According to Ash in over 1,500 searches, there have been no reported serious injuries or deaths and recovery times average less than 30 minutes.
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The Importance of Project Lifesaver, Especially During the Winter Months
Feb 24, 2010 – Chesapeake, VA – In January and February alone, Project Lifesaver International, a non-profit organization specializing in training public safety agencies on search and rescue programs, equipment, and procedures to help individuals with cognitive conditions that wander, has conducted approximately 30 search and rescue missions for missing individuals participating in their program throughout the United States. This year’s winter season has also proven to be one of extreme winter conditions, as snow has blanketed many states throughout the month of February.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly 60% of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease will wander at some point during the progression of the disease, and many will wander repeatedly. Additionally, according to a survey conducted by the National Autism Association, nearly 92% of parents felt that their autistic child was at risk of wandering. To help combat this problem of wandering, Project Lifesaver International helps train public safety agencies throughout the world to conduct search and rescue efforts by using state-of-the-art technology to find those who wander due to cognitive conditions.
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Palm Springs Police Offers Free “Project Lifesaver” Device
The Palm Springs Police Department has received a grant to help provide Project Lifesaver wristbands free of charge to limited income families.
Project Lifesaver, which began 11 years ago, is a non-profit organization established to help locate people who are prone to wander due to Alzheimer's disease, autism and other cognitive disorders.
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Ulster police’s tracking device helps recover those who wander
KINGSTON — Deputy Andrea Fister spun in a circle until the radio equipment in her hand began to beep like a metal detector.
"That's how we know we're facing the right direction," she said. "So now we'll walk this way."
She walked slowly until the beeps grew louder. Fister readjusted the tracking equipment and changed course slightly to the left, where she found a small transmitter hidden in a bush outside the Ulster County Jail.
"That's how it's done!" she said, holding the transmitter up for everyone to see.
Wednesday's high-tech version of hide-and-seek was only a demonstration, but Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum believes the technology could save people who are prone to wandering. Van Blarcum and others from his department announced Wednesday their enrollment in Project Lifesaver, a national program that helps police voluntarily track wanderers by outfitting them with a small transmitter.
Project Lifesaver Comes to DeKalb County
A new way to locate people with special needs who may become lost is now in DeKalb County and will soon be put into action.
State Sen. Lowell Barron met Monday with DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris, local mental health advocate Jerry Delk and several officers from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department to kick off special training for Project Lifesaver in DeKalb County.
Project Lifesaver will help find lost adults or children in DeKalb County, who may suffer from Alzheimer’s, Down syndrome or other related disorders. The program will be facilitated by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, which will provide those enrolled in the program with a transmitter worn around the wrist or ankle that emits an individualized tracking signal.
Project aims to keep dementia, autism patients safe
As daylight spread across upper Cleveland County on the morning of June 13, 2009, county Emergency Management Director Dewey Cook was already hard at work.
Equipped with a radio device, he listened for beeps - clues that would help him find a missing woman who had walked off from home.
In Cleveland County, she is one of about 20 Project Lifesaver participants who range from elderly patients with dementia to a child with autism.
Within six minutes, Cook had tracked the 79-year-old woman, an Alzheimer's patient, and found her behind a mobile home about a mile from her house.
Nationwide, the project has conducted more than 2,000 successful searches, with a couple of those coming from Cleveland County.
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Missing Person Found In Minutes
On Feb. 3 at 11:32 a.m., the New Martinsville Police Department Dispatch Center received a complaint of a missing person. The person was a client of Wetzel County Project Lifesaver that is coordinated by Sgt. Dave Byers of the NMPD.
The complainant advised that her 84-year-old husband had gone to the pharmacy and bank at 9:30 a.m. and had not returned. Since the missing person was driving a vehicle, the department immediately took information to enter the missing person into NCIC. After obtaining the information that was needed to start the search Sgt. Byers left NMPD with a receiver. "We had notified Ptl. F. Estep of NMPD and Tyler County Project Lifesaver," said Byers. "Tom Cooper of Tyler County was responding with John Bennett, Helen Bennett, and Lisa Jackson."
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Does Someone You Love Need Project Lifesaver?
It was an inquiry from the Director of the Salem County Office of the Disabled that first alerted me to an important program in Cape May County. She called to ask if Project Lifesaver was active in our area. As I have since learned, this program is operating in all 21 counties of New Jersey, making our state (to its great credit) totally subscribed to the Project. The program operates through the Sheriff’s Office in each community.
Project Lifesaver is a non-profit international organization, based in Chesapeake, Virginia, whose mission is to protect patients who wander due to conditions such as Alzheimer’s and autism.
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Wandering Alzheimer’s patient found