An NHS trust has become the first in the country to try fitting dementia patients with tracking devices. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust has worked with a technology ...

Scandinavian researchers have been trialling GPS systems that allows real-time tracking of dementia sufferers. ... GPS app used to keep track of dementia patients By Leon Gettler. January 29, 2013 ...

Home technology helped locate 80-year-old Margaret Gallaway who went missing for nearly seven days last week, but no system is perfect for keeping dementia patients safe, according to officials at ...

LONDON A British police force is hoping to save time and money by giving a few dementia patients GPS tracking devices, a technique already used by health and welfare agencies but condemned by some ...

The disease causes memory loss as it destroys brain cells and accounts for 50% to 70% of all dementia cases. There is no cure for Alzheimer’s, although symptoms can be treated to lessen its affects.

Dementia patients should be fitted with GPS trackers to find them within seconds of going missing, ... Sussex Police became the first force to fit patients with GPS tracking devices in 2013, ...

Doctors say GPS tracking reduces the risk of harm faced by patients who wander and that the ethical risks are slight. In the UK, a £15 (Rs 1,300) set of transmitters will sound an alarm if the ...

LONDON — A British police force is hoping to save time and money by giving a few dementia patients GPS tracking devices, a technique already used by health and welfare agencies but condemned by ...

A British police force is hoping to save time and money by giving a few dementia patients GPS tracking devices, a move condemned by some opponents as "barbaric." Last week, Sussex police announced ...

The NHS in Dorset is trialling a tracking device to keep dementia patients safe. It is an insole that a patient places in his or her shoe. It helps to keep tabs on the wearer so that relatives and ...

The NHS in Dorset is trialling a tracking device to keep dementia patients safe. It is an insole that a patient places in his or her shoe. It helps to keep tabs on the wearer so that relatives and ...