Keeping Your Loved One with Dementia Safe
It can be a constant worry trying to make sure the person you care for is safe. I would often be anxious that Dad might go missing while I was at school. It had already happened to both of my Nans who were living with dementia, one of them getting as far as Dorset! (we live in London), so it wasn’t silly to think it could happen to Dad too. That nightmare became a reality one day but thankfully we found him fairly quickly - he had tried to go back to work.
Helping you keep your loved one with dementia safe is a very important part of Seeing Dementia Differently because we understand the stress, anxiety, and worry that comes with being a dementia carer.
On this page you will find tips for safeguarding someone who is living with dementia.
Resources
MedicAlert - Carers ID & Medical ID for people living with Dementia
MedicAlert are a fantastic charity who offer a Medical ID service for people living with all kinds of medical conditions. They specifically have ID’s for people living with Dementia and for carers. You are able to upload an emergency care plan on your carers account so you don’t have to worry about what happens to your loved one if something happens to you. I have one myself and cannot recommend them highly enough. If you’re adventurous like me and enjoy travelling, its worth noting that MedicAlert automatically translates into over 100 languages so emergency services abroad can receive information in their native language.
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The Herbert Protocol - A National Safeguarding scheme for people living with Dementia
70% of people who are living with Dementia will go missing at least once during the course of their illness. I know first hand how upsetting and scary it is to come home and not know where your loved one is. It feels frantic and you want nothing but to find them immediately. The Herbert Protocol is a national scheme that lets you put in information such as a recent photo, physical description, emergency contact info, and relevant places to start looking if your loved one does go missing. This information is accessible to emergency services and the police so they can start looking with just one phone call. This minimises the time they are lost and means they won’t get as far as they could if you had to spend time at the police station filling this information out at the time something happens.
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