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Tracking Device's for Alzheimer's Patients

Listed below you will find a list of companies that makes tracking device’s for Alzheimer’s patients.
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Electronic Tracking Devices and Security Products

Company/Topic Information

Product/Source Information

Vision Localization Systems
C/Alcazaba 12
Alqueria de Almanzor 41808
Espartinas-Seville (Spain)

Phone: 917-310-0973
Website:
www.keruve.com

Keruve is a direct locator especially designed for people with Alzheimer's that still have autonomy and their families. Keruve consists of a GPS wristwatch with safety lock for the person with Alzheimer's to wear (see image), and a portable receive for the family or caregiver. The caregiver, by simply pressing the locate button on the receiver, will generate a map on the screen with the exact position of the person wearing the GPS watch. Keruve is the most discreet, easy to use, and reliable locator for Alzheimer's.

Locator Systems Corp
Wanderless® System
692 Sumas St.Victoria, BC Canada
Phone: 250-381-9425; 866-863-5155 (U.S.)
Fax: 250-381-9426
Website:
www.locatorsystemscorp.com

 

Provides small devices that can be attached to a wandering person's clothing, bracelets, etc. They are tracked over a range of several miles with large antennas that are worn inside the clothing of the caregiver--they are sewn into the back of jackets, shirts, etc. The locator indicates direction and rough distance only, using a RF signal.

Wherify
2500 Bridge Parkway, Suite 210
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
Phone: 888-WHERIFY
Fax: 650-551-5225
Website:
www.wherifywireless.com

Offers a large watch that fixes its location via GPS and communicates the location over cell phone frequencies. The location is displayed on a web page. This is a first-generation product, and is no longer produced. Second-generation products (expected to arrive in 2005) will be smaller devices with essentially the same functionality.

Nextel
Phone: 800-639-6111

Offers GPS-enabled phones. There are a number of third-party services that will display the exact location of a phone on a web page (within 10 meters or so, depending on weather conditions, view of the sky, etc.).

Project Lifesaver
815 Battlefield Blvd.
S.Chesapeake, VA 23322
Phone: 757-546-5502
Fax: 757-546-5503
Email:
contact@projectlifesaver.org
Website:
http://www.projectlifesaver.org

Provides a wristwatch-sized device that can be tracked outdoors by a large hand-held antenna using a RF signal. The antenna has a range of several miles, and indicates direction and rough distance to the wandering person. The system is sold only to police departments.

C. Security Products

Company/Topic Information

Product/Source Information

ADT – Companion Service
8154 Woodland Center Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33614
Telephone: 800-568-1216
Website:
www.adt.com

ADT offers Companion Service. Countertop communicator and small assist button (worn around the neck, clipped to pocket, or carried in pocket). Push button for help and signal is sent to ADT Monitoring Station. Individually tailored response plan (calling an ambulance, next door neighbor, or other option).

Care Electronics, Inc.
4700 Sterling Drive, Suite D
Boulder
, CO 80301
Contact: Tom Moody
Telephone: 303-444-2273
FAX: 303-447-3502
www.careelectronics.com

“WanderCare” system provides a wandering alert with a distance set by the caregiver and is adjustable. Up to one mile tracking device. Other safety systems can be added such as fire alarms, wheelchair monitors, and wetness monitors.

Care Trak International, Inc.
1202 Walnut St.
Murphysboro, IL 62966

Telephone: 1-800-842-4537
FAX: 618-687-3539
E-mail: caretrak@caretrak.com
Internet Address:
http://www.caretrak.com

Offers an array of devices to control wanders (including Door Alarm System, Invisible Perimeter Alarm System, Mobile Locator System, Wrist/Ankle Transmitters).

Home Technology Systems, Inc.
2400 Kerper Blvd.
Dubuque, IA 52001
Telephone: 800-922-3555
FAX: 563-588-1252
Website:
www.hometechsystems.com

Call for help transmitters and monitoring systems.

Powderhorn Industries, Inc.
931 North Park Avenue(Mail)
P.O. Box 1443
Montrose, CO 81402
Telephone: 800-336-1414
FAX: 970-249-6839E-mail
Address:
custser@powind.com
Website:
www.powind.com

The “Bed Sentinel” sounds an alert signal when the person who is about to leave the bed or removes the sheet/blanket.

“Bedside Sentinel” is a motion detector device that sounds an alarm when the person is getting out of bed.

“Chair Sentinel” for wheelchairs. The unit is patient releasable and emits an audible sound when the belt buckle is unfastened.

RF Technologies, Inc.
3125 North 126th Street
Brookfield, WI 53005
Telephone: 800-669-9946
Website:
www.rft.com

Code alert has emergency response systems, wanderer monitoring systems and fall prevention aids for the home and facility care market.

Secure Care Products
39 Chenell Drive Concord, NH 03301-8501
Telephone: 800-451-7917
FAX: 603-227-0200
Website:
http://www.securecare.com

Perimeter systems (that can lock the door when resident wearing a transmitter approaches the receiver). System is primarily for care facilities.

Senior Technologies, Inc.
1620 N. 20th Circle
Lincoln, NE 68503
Telephone: 800-824-7140
FAX: 402-475-4281
Website:
www.seniortechnologies.com

Wander Guard® departure alert systems: Selective door alarm with wrist signaling devices that trigger the alarm if the door is opened. Also offers fall-prevention monitors, emergency call pendants, motion detectors and door/window transmitters.

Also See: Wandering Behavior: Causes and Solutions (PDF)

 

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