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| Blessedx4 | May 1, 2013, 8:18 am Post #1 |
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I can see how this would be popular especially for those who "home-care" their loved one with this disease. Our loved one is in a nursing home. He has a buzzer attached to the back of his shirt so he doesn't get up (he's a fall risk) If he tries to stand up it goes off. To get in or out of the home you have to put in numbers. We know those numbers so have no problem getting in or out the entrance doors. But there is also another door to the Dementia wing where you have to enter a different set of numbers to get in or out of. That number we do not know. We have to wait for a nurse to come put those numbers in for us then fly through the door before the alarm goes off. The Dementia patients can't go through any exit/door without putting in a number. They don't have the where-with-all to know that number or the speed to get through the door fast enough. Another security feature being that if any of the doors are opened (by anyone) without putting those numbers in and/or it stays opened for over 30 seconds the fire department shows up along with a number of nurses who come running. So people/patients can't just walk up to a door and open it, in other words GPS tags for dementia patients Dementia patients are to be fitted with GPS tracking devices for the first time to save police money searching for those who regularly go missing. By Victoria Ward, Alice Philipson and John Bingham 8:32PM BST 30 Apr 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10029205/GPS-tags-for-dementia-patients.html Edited by Blessedx4, May 1, 2013, 8:23 am.
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| Blackjack | May 1, 2013, 8:30 am Post #2 |
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See, this is how it starts. Who could be against GPS tags for dementia patients? Soon we'll all have tags or chips or something similar. Standard line, right? Be that as it may I like this idea. My mom is 84 and has dementia. Thank God she hasn't wandered off yet but sooner or later she is bound to. If and when that happens it would be nice if there was some way that we could figure out where she went. As for it being "inhumane," wouldn't it be more inhumane not to fit some people with these devices and to have them die from exposure because we can't find them? |
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| Blessedx4 | May 1, 2013, 8:36 am Post #3 |
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I fully expected it after 9/11. They were searching for victims and I though "this would be a great application for the chip" so you can locate survivors or victims after a disaster. Another area I thought about was keeping track of kids = especially after a kidnapping. One thing I had to get over is the GPS phone tracking feature in my iPhone. So cool that I can go to one of the Map aps and see my car moving. Or weather bearing down on us. But I admit it's kind of creepy too. Edited by Blessedx4, May 1, 2013, 8:38 am.
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| Rainbo | May 2, 2013, 7:16 pm Post #4 |
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Blessed, I can see how tempting it would be to go with the GPS tags, it just creeps me out. I can see the good it could do, but can also see the abuse that could happen. I like the idea of the extra security for the dementia patients that the nursing home you mentioned has. A lady from my church said that her family had to put her Grandfather in a nursing home because he had mild Alzheimer and was beginning to wander. The nursing home was one that had the keypad locks on the doors that opened to the outside. He did not like the nursing home at all and complained about having to be there. Well he was still very lucid and one day talked a someone who knew the code for the exit doors into letting him out. When the nursing home found out about it they conducted a search for him and called the family. The family found him pretty quickly, he was shuffling down the main road with his walker, when asked where he was going he said to see his girlfriend. His "girlfriend" apparently was the lady who helped take care of him before he got to bad to live at home, and the nursing home was no where near her house. |
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| cricket55 | May 2, 2013, 7:20 pm Post #5 |
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I think it is a good safety measure for dementia patients. When Dad first went to a NH he had an ankle bracelet on. So when he would sneak out one of the doors they knew and brought him back in. Dad had to be transferred to a locked unit when he cut the ankle bracelet off :lol and made what we call, "The great escape." Lucky the cook looked out a window and saw Dad walking up the street. |
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