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Helpful Ideas - Safe Return Bracelets

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The Alzheimer's Association offers a program called "Safe Return." It is a nationwide identification program in the United States that provides assistance when a person with dementia wanders and becomes lost from home.

Assistance is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If an enrollee is missing, one call immediately activates a community support network to help reunite the lost person with his or her caregiver.

Safe Return faxes the enrolled person's information and photo to local law enforcement. When the person is found, a citizen or law official calls the 800-number on the identification products and Safe Return notifies listed contacts. The nearest Alzheimer's Association office provides information and support during the search and rescue efforts.

For more information about this service, please go to http://www.alz.org/Services/SafeReturn.asp. Be sure to include a current photo with your application.

For some it may be a good idea to get a bracelet for the caregiver too. This provides two things for the caregiver. First, if the caregiver get's hurt, the bracelet provides information so you can let someone know that there is a family member at home with dementia. Second, the caregiver wearing a bracelet can be used to persuade the pFTD to ware one when the pFTD does not want to wear it. Pne could explain that each of you needs to wear a bracelet in case of an accident.

 

 

 

 

 



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Association of Frontotemporal Dementia (Website)
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Pick's Disease Support Group (Website)

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University of California, San Francisco (Website)
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Canada has a program called Medic Alert Program

http://www.medicalert.ca

A Yahoo Support Group Member suggested this site. She has FTD and her Medic Alert necklace has "Memory Loss", and the phone number of one of her sons, in case she wanders off from her husband while they are out shopping.



United Kingdom has a program called Medic Alert Program

http://www.pdsg.org.uk/information/helpful_tips/




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