Making it Easier to Find Loved Ones Faster

The Voice of Canada News

Ontario is helping families, caregivers and communities recognize the risks of dementia, be prepared for incidents, and better ensure that seniors can live safely in their communities.

About 125,000 seniors in Ontario living with dementia are at risk of wandering and going missing each year. That’s why the province is putting their safety first by providing nearly $ 600,000 to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario to deliver the Finding Your Way program.

Raymond Cho, Minister for Seniors and Accessibility, and Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, Minister of Long-Term Care at Malton Village Long-Term Care Home with representatives of the Alzheimer Society of Ontario.

“This funding will go a long way in helping seniors stay safe, especially given an estimated 240,000 seniors in Ontario are living with dementia,” said Minister Cho. “This is one more example of how we are doing things and we are doing it better.”

Finding Your Way is a multicultural wandering prevention program that provides a number of useful and useful tools for caregivers and caregivers.

This new funding will help you to find more people in your community, and you will need to know more about it.

“We are very pleased with the support of the Ontario government to grow our finding your way program,” said Cathy Barrick, CEO, Alzheimer Society of Ontario. “We are also going to be able to reduce future incidents.”

“This is one of the most vulnerable people in the world,” said Minister Fullerton. “This funding will help to keep those living with dementia or Alzheimer’s in our long-term cares homes safe.”