LoJack Bracelets Keep Track of Seniors with Alzheimers

Last summer, an elderly woman in Brookline, Mass. disappeared overnight. When she was found, the 60-year-old resident was wandering in her bathrobe and slippers in a front yard 6 miles away in neighboring West Roxbury. Incidents like this one have helped spark the Brookline Homesafe Program, a new initiative by area police which will make it easier to find residents with Alzheimer's or dementia who have become separated from their families.

For $30 a month, residents receive a bracelet produced by LoJack Corporation that can be tracked remotely using radio frequencies. Families can give the bracelets to elderly relatives who might wander off. If th…
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