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 White Plains, NY - Project Lifesaver, a program that uses radio-frequency technology to find seniors with Alzheimer’s disease who wander from their homes, will have an “open enrollment day” on July 16 in Yonkers.
The event will be held at Our Place ElderServe, 347 Saw Mill River Road from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Through Project Lifesaver, eligible seniors are fitted with bracelets with special batteries. Should they wander from their homes, specifically trained and equipped county police can locate them by tracking a radio signal the bracelets transmit.
The program’s goal is to find the seniors quickly and safely return them to their families. It also aims to try to ease some of the enormous anxiety families feel when a loved one wanders away and they think they may be harmed or they will never see them again. As of mid-June, 42 seniors were wearing the bracelets.
Since the program began in August 2008, the police have located two missing seniors through PLS and were activated to look for two others who were found before the police began their search.
Project Lifesaver sponsors are Westchester County’s Department of Senior Programs and Services and the Department of Public Safety in partnership with the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale and International Project Lifesaver.
The program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information or to RSVP contact Melody Keel at the ElderServe Safe Center at (914) 368-5506 or email
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Westchester residents who want more information but are unable to attend one of the open houses should also contact Keel.
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