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The Prevalence of Missing Incidents and Their Antecedents Among Older Adult MedicAlert Subscribers: Retrospective Descriptive Study

The Prevalence of Missing Incidents and Their Antecedents Among Older Adult MedicAlert Subscribers: Retrospective Descriptive Study

With increasing numbers of people living with dementia, the prevalence of missing incidents due to critical wandering is rising as well (refer to section The Concept of Missingness and Critical Wandering and Its Risk Factors: A Brief Theoretical Background). However, research on prevalence estimation on missing incidents due to critical wandering is inconclusive in some jurisdictions and overlooked in others. Limitations of the prior literature on this topic exist.

Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Hector Perez, Yoojin Choi, Emily Rutledge, Christine Daum, Lili Liu

JMIR Aging 2024;7:e58205

Electronic Tracking Devices for People With Dementia: Content Analysis of Company Websites

Electronic Tracking Devices for People With Dementia: Content Analysis of Company Websites

Of the many symptoms of dementia, wandering is a particular problem regarding maintaining a person with dementia safely in their home. Wandering involves movements that have a “frequent repetitive, temporally disordered and/or spatially disordered nature...some of which are associated with eloping, eloping attempts or getting lost unless accompanied” [5].

Jared Howes, Yvonne Denier, Chris Gastmans

JMIR Aging 2022;5(4):e38865