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Tracking Bracelets for Autistic Kids and Senior Citizens
The Rocky River Police Department in Cuyahoga County, Ohio has started a pilot program to help find missing autistic children and senior citizens with tracking bracelets. For a monthly fee citizens can get a bracelet from the police department, who can then pinpoint the location of their loved one or object of obsession. From the article: "If someone wearing the bracelet goes missing, a family member or caregiver still must alert the Rocky River Police Department. The person reporting the incident or the police department then will contact EMFinders and give the bracelet serial number worn by the missing person, [police chief] Stillman said. While the police department follows its usual protocol for a missing person, EMFinders will send out a signal to the bracelet. In turn, the bracelet sends a signal to the 911 operator through the Cuyahoga Emergency Communications System (CECOMS)."
Daddy, what happened to grandpa? Well son, his bracelet blew his hand off when he tried to sneak out of the nursing pris^h^h^h^h home.
Watashi wa chikyubutsurigakusha desu.
Confused older people with screw and fiddle with it until they break it or remove it by any means necessary.
My credentials? Nurse on a telemetry unit where 90% of my patients are over the age of 70. If they are confused, they'll pull IVs, Central Lines, Foley catheters that are fully inflated...yeah, brilliant idea Ohio, but it ain't gonna work. If someone will pull out a golf ball sized balloon through their penis, a little plastic and fabric bracelet aint gonna stop em.
I have an autistic brother and there's no way he'd keep this on. Autistics have heightened sensitivity and many couldn't stand wearing a strap around their wrist all day.
That works for tracking everyone else.
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How long until this is used in the wrong way? Most people with access to the system would never do such a thing, but sooner or later it will become abused.
What else can happen when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
Why would I want to do that? Do bracelets abscond that often?
In one case the 10-year old girl drowned and the other the other 11-year old boy was found alive overnight. There were media alerts to look for the victims before they were found. Water may have killed the first device or blocked its signal, although its not supposed to. The forensic analysis is not completed yet. Guardians are supposed to check batteries and devices every week.
So parents could find them if separated. I heard a story about this two years ago and nothing since. I have no idea of the popularity.
Isn't that the idea?
So the person in question, just doesn't take it off in confusion or whatever.
- Don't do what I do, it's probably not healthy nor safe. -
PS is it Autistic (Kids and Senior Citizens), or (Autistic Kids) and Senior Citizens?
probably "autistics, kids and seniors, citizens". only two missing "s" and a strangely placed "and" but I'll blame the writer of TFS
only old people wear bracelets
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...You could just get them a cell phone on a family plan, authorize tracking of it, then watch their movements in something resembling realtime on the cell provider's website. That way, when Grandpa heads down to the basement to rub one out, you don't need to start a six-county manhunt.
Or better, stop playing games and just put 'em in a home. If you don't have the time to monitor someone like that 24/7 (ie, if you have to actually work for a living), you shouldn't have custody of them. For their sake and your own, place them in an environment that can properly care for them.
So anyone except who the system is specifically designed for doesn't need it? also where did you get the idea that now they're going to force people to wear it? Even the summary says you have to ASK for one and then you have to PAY in order to get and use it. God forbid the government interfere with our rights by providing a optional service in a capitalist fashion.
Lock grandma in the basement and she won't wander off. Then invest all the money you save on monitoring fees in BitCoins.
And then all kids, and all senior citizens, and felons, and immigrants
The Slippery Slope fallacy in its purest form.
The caretakers of the elderly are often elderly themselves. There is a need here.
Wasn't there a Law & Order episode with an autistic kid that had a tracking bracelet but took it off?
While the idea of putting it on those willing with autism or alzheimer's, if it can be taken off the problem still exists
Alzheimer wandering is very stressful for the family, especially the partner. http://www.alz-locate.com/ outlines the way this works... free for 2 weeks, and the $20 for 2 years. A son living in a distant city can get a call from his grandmother "Fred didn't come back from his walk. Can you see where he is on your computer?" The old Lady just has to keep the phone charged and in his pocket. The watcher can do the rest. You can tell her where he is. For /. readers the encryption and hashing are quite interesting. No person's name ever gets into the system, and everything except the optional email is irreversibly hashed (the email is there only for a forgotten password). There is no need to know who the watcher or the wanderer is, just where he is!
How about we force YOU to wear one, for your own good of course. YOU may not agree, but all of us here who really care about what happens to you have decided for you. What's the problem? It's a voluntary program--it was voluntary for us.
I've worked with these on a smaller scale. The version that looks like a watch for small scale dementia/mental health/alzheimer's locked units. They work great, until you find the watch attacked to the cat's collar, on a different patient, or behind the toilet.
I mean pulling out an inflated foley catheter would probably be like passing a good sized kidney stone.
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An interesting read is send in the idiots (named after a phrase a classmate would say over and over), which is a bit of a mash-up of philosophy and science. It essentially explores autism - it's a series of anecdotes as the author tries to track down everyone he went to school with. While this is dealing with autism rather than aspergers, a lot of it translates over (I've got aspergers myself), it gives a bit of insight into how we tick.
If you were after a more concrete, "help me deal with problems" book then I doubt you'll find much out there. Aspergers affects everyone differently, so even if you can find something there's no guarantee it would be any help (For example, I'm hypersensitive to light and sound, wheras someone else might not be able to concentrate if they're wearing jeans). Rather, I suggest you check out this website. The views are diverse to say the least (ranging from hating ASD to loving it), but most people are well balanced and if you have any queries they should be more than happy to help you out
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.
To all the "they'll take it off', "it will fail", "Autistics won't wear it", etc get a grip. No single solution will work with all people all the time but throwing a system that can protect 90% of the people wearing it is a good thing. Just because it is not perfect does not mean it should not be done.
You can DIY for $120 plus the cost of a cell plan with unlimited messaging. There are GPS cat trackers available that weigh about 50 grams and are the size of a couple of quarters and will send you a text with the location of the device, either automatically or on command.