Frequently we read about Alzheimer’s patients who wander away from home or a nursing facility.  Fortunately, many of them are found before they die from exposure or other causes. 
My mom and aunt both wandered off, (on different occasions) trying to return to their girlhood home.  They were found shortly after they escaped from their caregivers.
A friend of ours was not so fortunate.  He left his wife at an appointment and failed to return for her.  Two weeks later his body was found in a woods about 100 miles from home.  He’d driven onto a woods road, gotten his car stuck …read more

When I wrote, Should Alzheimer’s Patients Be Electronically Tagged? concerning a proposal in England and put up the poll about this topic, I wondered if there would be feed back from families and the general public…both pro and con?
It appears some people definitely consider electronically tracking of Alzheimer’s patients, even for their own safety, to be an invasion of privacy.  A note in the Alzheimer’s Daily News referred to a Boca Raton News (BocaNews.com) article, Demonstrators protest plan to ‘microchip’ Alzheimer’s patients.
“The plan of a West Palm Beach Alzheimer’s care center to place microchips into patients has drawn ciritcism from a …read more