LA County Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Program That Tracks People With Alzheimer's, Dementia
Author: internet - Published 2019-09-09 07:00:00 PM - (282 Reads)Los Angeles County's LA Found program recently celebrated its first anniversary, reports CBS Los Angeles . The program helps locate people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia who wander off by equipping them with small monitoring bracelets. Every bracelet corresponds with a unique radio frequency. When a person wearing the bracelet goes missing, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department Mental Evaluation Team employs a handheld or helicopter-mounted receiver to track their location. Since the program's inception, 12 people with bracelets went missing and all were retrieved safely.