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What is Project Lifesaver - Project
Lifesaver is a proactive response to identify those
individuals within the community who have a propensity to
wander and not be able to return home. This program consists
of a small radio transmitter that the client wears on their
wrist or ankle.
How do
we find loved ones? - Project Lifesaver
deploys specially trained personnel with radio receivers to
quickly locate and return wandering adults and children to
their families and caregivers.
Proven Radio Technology and Rescue Team
- Project Lifesaver relies on proven radio technology and a
specially trained search and rescue team. Clients that are
enrolled in the Project Lifesaver program wear a
personalized wristband that emits a tracking signal. When
caregivers notify the local Project Lifesaver agency that
the person is missing, a search and rescue team responds to
the wanderer's last known location and starts searching with
the mobile locater tracking system. Search times have been
reduced from hours and days to minutes. In over 1600
searches, there have been no reported serious injuries or
deaths, and the recovery time's average is less than 30
minutes.
Highly Trained
Teams - Project Lifesaver teams are
specially trained, not only in search and rescue and the use
of the electronic tracking equipment, but also in
the methods necessary to communicate with a person who has
Alzheimer's disease or related disorder. Locating the
individual is only part of the mission. The person who is located could
be disoriented, anxious, or untrusting. The Project
Lifesaver teams know how to approach the person, gain their
trust, and put them at ease for the trip home.
The History of Project
Lifesaver - Established in April 1999 as an
initiative of the 43rd Virginia Search and Rescue Company of
the Chesapeake, Virginia Sheriff's Office, Project Lifesaver
is built on the work of the Stokes County (NC) Mountain
Rescue program which pioneered the use of special equipment
and procedures to locate lost and wandering patients with
mental disorders. Amid the dramatic increased of people with
Alzheimer's, Down Syndrome, and Autism, Project Lifesaver
has become one of the leading organizations addressing the
need to protect these patients and bring comfort to their
families and caregivers.
For more information on
Project Lifesaver you can contact Sean Atkinson at
satkinson@brownsburgfire.org or go to
www.projectlifesaver.org
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