App helps families find lost seniors with dementia

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While walking his dog at around 10pm last December, Mr Anthony Lim, 54, spotted an elderly woman looking lost and disoriented.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

While walking his dog at around 10pm last December, Mr Anthony Lim, 54, spotted an elderly woman looking lost and disoriented.

Mr Lim, who works as an elder sitter at Filos Community Services where he provides care for dementia patients in their homes, said:"I calmed her down and asked for her address." The woman was reunited with her family, less than 10 hours after she had wandered off. She usually lives with her children in Yishun but was staying with one of them in Sengkang when she went missing.When she went missing last December, her family searched for her in different places.

Since the free Dementia Friends app was launched in October last year, over 4,100 people have downloaded it, said Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Health, in Parliament earlier this month. It was developed by the Agency for Integrated Care , Nanyang Polytechnic and the Integrated Health Information Systems, which runs the information technology systems of all public healthcare institutions here. Over 50 people, aged between 50 and 90, who were reported lost have been assisted so far, thanks to the app.

 

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