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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, is holding three open-enrollment programs this spring.
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 find them using radio signals that the bracelets transmit.
The program’s goal is to find the seniors quickly and safely return them to their homes. 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.
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 programs will take place on April 16 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Edna L. Roker Social Adult Day Center, 311 North St., White Plains; on May 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wartburg Adult Care Community, Wartburg Place, Mount Vernon; and on June 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Ludington Adult Day Services, 16 Guion Place, New Rochelle.
The sessions are free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information and to register, contact Melody Keel, program specialist, at the ElderServe Safe Center for Seniors at (914) 368-5506 or email
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