LOST CHILD PREVENTION: Free 16-page Hug-A-Tree Coloring Book, by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Download 16-page coloring book here.
Source: Monica McFadden via SAR Talk

LOST PERSON BEHAVIOR: Data on lost hikers

Lost Person Behavior: Children 1 to 3 years old, by the Arizona Search and Rescue Coordinators Association

The special challenges of searching for missing alzheimer's subjects

Kimberly R. Kelly Falconer, Founder and Executive Director of Project Far From Home, has put together a great review of some of the special challenges searchers will face when looking for missing alzheimer's subjects.

Entitled Missing at Risk – Understanding and Managing the Search for the Missing Alzheimer’s Subject (Copyright © 2008 by Project Far From Home), her write-up explains the following topics:

• What is Alzheimer’s disease?
• How Is AD Diagnosed?
• Progression of the Disease
• Agnosia
• Agnosia and Driving
• Agnosia and Additional Concerns
• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Cognitive Mapping
• Sundowning
• Dysphagia
• Wandering
• Family Reporting Incidents of Past Wandering
• Lost in the Labyrinth
• Catastrophic Reaction
• Violence
• Incontinence
• A Death March

Download your copy of this informative, 18-page document here.

5 tips for tracking missing dementia patients

Five tips for finding missing dementia patients.

Source: Donald Moore via SAR Talk