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If your mother is wandering off, you don't need a GPS to track her down - you need to do something to keep her safe. A GPS isn't going to stop her from walking into traffic - sorry to be graphic but that is the kind of thing that can happen, and it does happen with horrible regularity. People with Alzheimer's wander away,and next day are found at the bottom of a ravine or they have been hit by a truck.

If she is wandering off, you need to stop her from doing that. It is easy - presumably she is living with you or someone else ? If so, you just put locks on the doors and windows and make sure she is supervised. You can have one-way locks, so you can get through the door going one way (ie you can get into the house), but she cannot get out. Or you put a high fence around the whole house, and a lock on the gate. If that sounds mean, its the better option than having her walk out and get killed.

If she is not living with anyone, really she needs to be. A wandering demented person has no idea of where they are, and living alone is definitely not a good idea. She could also turn on the stove and burn the house down, or climb out of a window and fall - the possibilities are endless. She needs to be cared for, either by a family member or in a secure dementia unit in a nursing home.

This is an emergency situation - a gps necklace is not what she needs, she needs care and protection.

While medical alerts of any type are helpful, this sounds like your mother is in dire need of 24 hour care more than anything. I would first look into finding either 24 hour care for her at home, or in a retirement facility for Alzheimer patients. It is difficult for one person to care for an Alzheimer's patient. There needs to be shifts, due to the caregiver needing sleep. This is the time when an Alzheimer's patient can wander off.

I agree with Stella. You need to locate your local agency for that or a local senior center and such that can provide information. Prevention is the best cure Too many seniors afflicted with that locally have walked off even away from 'rest homes' only to be found after the snow melted and dead or in a wooded area in temps low enough to cause hypothermia and death. Or to be found months later by hunters in some wooded area. They can also find ways to remove any jewelery and such, so that isn't exactly a guarantee of anything but for profiteering.

Hopefully they have found her.. this time... and let this be a profound warning to you.

i've heard of a light set up where whenever she opens her bedroom door the light would come on in your room.. also put bells on her door knob..buy a spy camera.. set it up in her room.. read up on alzheimer's on the comp.. it may give you some help.. also talk 2 the dr. he can help you too.

If it's something the police uses, contact them as they would know where.

She should be living with someone and not on her own if she wanders off.

So I see another troll opened a new alias.

call the police and then ask for information!!! and don't let it happen again...isn't this after the fact??

Get off the computer and go look for her.