Joan is a dementia patient and her HomesafeCare system was installed in Jan 2013. She lives in the country in an apartment next to her daughter Mary’s house. The system was set up for “night wandering” which means that if an external door opened during the night an alert would be sent to the monitoring station.
Joan had been very stable, but in May the monitoring station had alerted the family to the fact that she was opening the external door at night with the obvious danger of having a fall. Within a week of the first activation Joan was going out the external door between three and five times every night. Armed with this information, Mary took her mother to her geriatrician who changed some of her medicines and also noticed that Joan was developing an infection which probably caused the unsettled nights. Joan has been stable for the last year.
