Kulinganiselwa ukuthi abangama-60% abantu baseMelika abayizigidi ezingu-5.3 abane- Alzheimer noma enye indlela yokudemeka kwengqondo bayoduka ekhaya noma kubanakekeli babo bese belahleka. Ukuziphatha okuzulazulayo yisimo esingesongela ukuphila. Indlela esabela ngayo ekuziphatheni okudukisayo kubalulekile. I-Medic Alert + i-Alzheimer's Association Safe Return Program isize ekubuyeleni okuphephile kwezinkulungwane zabantu kusukela ngo-1993.
I-Safe Return Program ine-database kazwelonke kanye nolwazi lwesithombe. Isebenza amahora angu-24 ngosuku, izinsuku eziyisikhombisa ngesonto, ne-line-free-crisis line line. Isebenza izahluko ze-Alzheimers's Association ezweni lonke, ukuphoqelelwa komthetho kanye nezinye izinhlaka eziphuthumayo zokuphendula.
I-Safe Return Program izohlinzeka ngemikhiqizo yokuhlonza njengezinto zokuhlobisa (imigexo namasongo), amakhadi esikhwama, amalebula okugqoka nenombolo yamahhala ayi-800 kubo.
I-Alzheimer's Association Safe Return Response
Noma ubani othola lo muntu olahlekile ubiza inamba engenayo inkokhelo ekhonjisiwe kumkhiqizo wokuhlonza umuntu ogqokeyo. Baqaphela umndeni noma umnakekeli ohlwini olugcinwe ku-Safe Return database.
I-Safe Return Programme ithumela isithombe somuntu olahlekile nolwazi kanye nezinkampani zomthetho zendawo.
Izahluko ze-Alzheimer's Association zendawo zinikeza ukusekelwa komndeni nokusizwa ngenkathi amaphoyisa eqhuba ukucinga nokusindiswa.
Izindleko ze-Safe Return Programme
Kukhona imali engu-$ 55 yokubhalisa ehlanganisa ubucwebe bokuxwayisa imithi, ikhadi lesikhwama ngokwezifiso, nokugcinwa kwerekhodi lempilo yomuntu siqu. Kukhona nemali yokuvuselela engu-$ 35 ngonyaka.
Ukuxhumana ne-Safe Return Program
Ungaxhumana ne-Alzheimer's Association ku-888.572.8566.
Ungabhalisa futhi ku-intanethi ku-medicalert.org/safereturn. Ifomu lokubhalisa elivikelekile lifika ngesiShayina naseSpain.
Umthombo:
I-Alzheimer's Association. MedicAlert / + I-Alzheimer's Association Safe Return. http://www.alz.org/care/dementia-medic-alert-safe-return.asp
-Uhlelwe ngu-Esther Heerema, MSW