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knew things had taken a turn for the worse when Mom got up at 3 a.m., wandered out a side door that she had never used before, and walked around the parking lot of her apartment building. She was certain that someone was supposed to be picking her up to go somewhere,” recounts one local woman of her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease last year. “Fortunately, a security guard for the building spotted Mom quickly, before she had a chance to wander off.”
There’s no way to predict when or how a memory:impaired individual will walk away from their safe environment. The best advice is to be prepared, according to Jane Priest, Director of Patient and Family Services for the Alzheimer’s Association, Northern Virginia Chapter.
One way, Priest says, is through the National Alzheimer’s Association’s Safe Return Program — the only nationwide system designed to help identify, locate and return to safety memory-impaired individuals who may wander away and become lost.
The program provides registrants and their families with a personalized bracelet and other identification materials (for a one-time fee of $40) that help law enforcement and emergency personnel quickly return wandering individuals. The program’s nationwide toll-free
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