Home Care in Lockport IL: Keeping Track of the Most Vulnerable

Keeping Track of the Most Vulnerable By Melba Newsome Source, www.care.com The frantic 911 call came in to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department at 12:40 AM.  Sandy Watkins had awakened to find her husband Paul, a 69-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer, missing from their Palm Harbor home. Less than an hour later, sheriff's lieutenant Kevin Bennett had located Watkins at a bus stop a few miles away in the town of Clearwater. Thanks to a wristband Watkins was wearing, a search that could have ended in disaster or taken days and cost tens of thousands of dollars was resolved promptly and with little manpower. Watkins is registered with the Project Lifesaver program, and wears a transmitter bracelet which emits a signal that can be picked up by a locating device. It was…

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