{"id":1954,"date":"2015-07-21T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2015-07-21T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:28:55","slug":"next-door-app-helps-in-finding-a-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Next Door App helps in finding a missing man."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just had my first experience with trying to find a lost person who has dementia. \u00a0My neighbor, who lives two blocks away, had fallen asleep on the couch for thirty minutes. \u00a0Just enough time for her husband to unlock the back door and disappear. \u00a0He has Lewy Body disease. \u00a0She provides his care 24\/7. \u00a0 Although he had been at the Adult Day Center today, she was exhausted and dozed off. \u00a0He was wearing the Project Lifesaver ankle bracelet that just had the battery replaced last week. She called the Sheriff’s office to alert them. \u00a0While she waited at the end of her driveway, she informed a passing bicyclist of her husband’s disappearance. \u00a0The rider of the bike is a friend of ours, so he came on to our house with the news. \u00a0While my husband got our bikes to join in the hunt, I wrote a quick alert on my Next Door App<\/a> to tell my neighbors and surrounding neighborhoods of this man’s disappearance. We rode to her house and introduced ourselves. \u00a0I waited with her while my friend and husband rode off in several directions, trying to find the missing man. \u00a0It was quickly getting dark. \u00a0The Sheriff arrived who had the GPS equipment\u00a0to find the ankle bracelet. \u00a0He rode off with the radar tool out his window to try to find him.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a neighbor who was out shopping saw the Next Door App<\/a> alert come up on her phone about the missing man. \u00a0She and her husband had recently driven out of the neighborhood and saw a man standing at the dark backend of a driveway on their way out. \u00a0Putting the alert together with seeing the man, they returned home, checking to see if he was still where they had seen him. \u00a0He was. As good fortune would have it, this alerted neighbor just happened to be a police officer. \u00a0He was able to bring our missing man home without incident. \u00a0He alerted the other officers involved who were searching the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

While I was waiting with the wife, we prayed together that her husband would be found without incident. \u00a0He was. \u00a0The networking of neighbors, technology, and the hand of God, all are safe tonight.<\/p>\n

Are you connected with your neighbors with the Next Door App<\/a>? \u00a0It’s free and an excellent tool to communicate quickly. Check it out. And then invite your neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just had my first experience with trying to find a lost person who has dementia. \u00a0My neighbor, who lives two blocks away, had fallen asleep on the couch for thirty minutes. \u00a0Just enough time for her husband to unlock the back door and disappear. \u00a0He has Lewy Body disease. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,14,15,20],"tags":[476],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-publication","category-education","category-links","category-local-resource","category-news-story","tag-next-door-app"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cxZR-vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}