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Home › Posts tagged dementia

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Building the citizen’s Silver Alert

By Michael Coyle Posted on 12/09/2014 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments
Building the citizen’s Silver Alert

In the absence of a Silver Alert for BC, myself and a team of others developed a Citizen-led Silver Alert system

Tagged with: alzheimer's, Autism, dementia, silver alert

Guidelines for posting about missing persons

By Michael Coyle Posted on 21/07/2014 Posted in Blog Entry 4 Comments

Guidelines for posting about missing persons – media and many other organizations routinely botch news about missing people leading to bad or misleading informaiton.

Tagged with: amber alert, dementia, silver alert

Community Emergency Response

By Michael Coyle Posted on 10/01/2014 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts 1 Comment
Community Emergency Response

The concept of an Community Emergency Response team is an interesting one that could be used to search for people with dementia among other emergencies.

Tagged with: Autism, CERT, community, dementia, emergency management, VOST

Letter to CBC’s The Current

By Michael Coyle Posted on 09/12/2013 Posted in Short Posts No Comments
Letter to CBC’s The Current

The Current, CBC’s national show, did a broadcast on Dementia and I decided to write a letter outlining some of my own opinins.

Tagged with: dementia, letter, SAR, urban SAR

Dementia Prevention and Search Resources

By Michael Coyle Posted on 04/12/2013 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments
Dementia Prevention and Search Resources

A list of resources to help prevent the wandering of people with dementia, and to assist SAR groups to search for them

Tagged with: alzheimer's, dementia, resource, SAR

Silver Alert

By Michael Coyle Posted on 25/11/2013 Posted in Blog Entry 1 Comment
Silver Alert

The silver alert is an example of an alert for a vulnerable missing person in an urban setting that can help find people with dementia who wander.

Tagged with: alert. silver alert, alzheimer's, Autism, dementia, technology

Tracking people with dementia when they wander

By Michael Coyle Posted on 20/11/2013 Posted in Blog Entry 1 Comment
Tracking people with dementia when they wander
Project Lifesaver Tracking Equipment

There are various technologies available to track missing subjects with dementia that allow trained searchers to locate them.

Tagged with: alzheimer's, dementia, SAR, technology

Provincial Dementia Action Plan for BC

By Michael Coyle Posted on 19/11/2013 Posted in Short Posts No Comments
Provincial Dementia Action Plan for BC

Province of BC has a Dementia Action plan that makes no mention of prevention, education or response to subjects that wander, a life threatening situation.

Tagged with: alzheimer's, dementia, education, prevention, SAR

Searching for Missing people with Dementia

By Michael Coyle Posted on 18/11/2013 Posted in Blog Entry 3 Comments
Searching for Missing people with Dementia

Many people don’t know that wilderness SAR teams are often called to search for subjects with dementia in BC, and it is one of the hardest parts of our job.

Tagged with: alzheimer's, dementia, SAR

Analysis of Missing Dementia in an Urban Environment

By Michael Coyle Posted on 17/06/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts 1 Comment
Analysis of Missing Dementia in an Urban Environment

My friend Richard Laing of Ridge Meadows SAR has written an analysis of missing subjects with dementia in the Metro Vancouver area. View the document here.

Tagged with: analysis, behaviour, dementia, numbers
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