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Project Lifesaver Releases Top Rescue and Milestones of 2010
Effectively Demonstrating the Success of Radio Frequency Technology in Helping Find Those with Cognitive Conditions Who Wander
January 3, 2011, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida – Project Lifesaver International, a non-profit organization that provides public safety agencies with equipment and training to quickly locate and rescue those with cognitive disorders who wander, today released their Top Milestones and Rescues of 2010. Currently, over 1,200 fire departments, police departments, sheriff’s offices, and EMS providers are members of Project Lifesaver International.
According to experts, nearly 60% of those with Alzheimer’s disease will wander at some point from the safety of their homes. In addition to this, many of these individuals will wander over and over again. In a recent National Autism Association survey, almost 92% of parents felt their autistic child was at risk of wandering from their care. Because of these alarming statistics, Project Lifesaver International was formed in 1999 to address this growing problem of wandering.
Public safety agencies participating on the program undergo extensive trainings and obtain radio frequency technology to locate those who go missing quickly and safely. Individuals enrolled in each community are provided with a radio transmitter, and should they become lost, agencies use this technology to hone in on a signal and identify the person’s exact location. To date, Project Lifesaver agencies have successfully located nearly 2,300 missing people, with no serious injuries or fatalities ever reported.
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Effingham sheriff kicks off Project Lifesaver
Bracelet can help find residents with Alzheimer's, dementia who may wander off
By MATTHEW GORICKI
SPRINGFIELD - Effingham County Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie has been close with a few people who died of Alzheimer's disease.
So when he heard of the nationwide Project Lifesaver program more than two years ago, he knew it was a service Effingham County needed to have.
McDuffie's deputies wrapped up two days of Lifesaver training Wednesday at the Effingham County Sheriff's Office.
Project Lifesaver is designed to find missing people, particularly the elderly, who may be affected by Alzheimer's or dementia, and children with autism.
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Lifesaving technology locates man who wandered away from Newark Senior Center
An 80 year old New Castle County man, who suffers from dementia, was located Thursday night several miles away from the Newark Senior Center, with the assistance of the Project Lifesaver Program. This is the first documented successful use of the technology in the area.
At 3:35 p.m., on Thursday, County Police responded to the Newark Senior Center for a report of a missing person who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. When the officers arrived, they contacted the victim’s son who reported his father was missing from the center.
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Two Faces of Alzheimer’s
Aug. 29--BOONEVILLE -- Some 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer's -- a brain-damaging disease that gradually robs its victims of mental and physical acuity.
Unless dramatic medical breakthroughs provide cures or preventives, 7.7 million are expected to have the disease by 2030, when all baby boomers will be at least 66 years old.
Alzheimer's -- the most common of several related dementias -- costs the nation an estimated $172 billion each year, and it is the seventh-leading cause of death for Americans -- the fourth for those over age 65.
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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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County Hopes Program A Lifesaver
County Hopes Program A Lifesaver
By Hicham Raache
Times Record • hraache@swtimes.com
Monday, March 8, 2010 9:35 AM CST
Sebastian County authorities have been working to implement a system that will enable authorities to locate quickly people with mental disorders who wander off.
The Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office is obtaining tracking equipment, services and training from Project Lifesaver International, a program that helps law enforcement agencies swiftly locate missing adults and children with disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, dementia or autism.
“I started looking at it about a year ago, especially during the time Mr. (Billy) Wheeler came up missing and we had so much difficulty trying to locate him,” Chief Deputy Tommy Young of the Sheriff’s Office said.
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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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