EmFinders

As the leading provider of high-accuracy cellular location solutions for individuals with cognitive impairments, EmFinders understands that your community and your family are counting on us to rescue those individuals under your care if and when they wander. (They will.)

Wandering and elopement are real. Every day we hear of tragic stories of impaired individuals, seniors and children alike, who go missing for hours, even days, some from the most secure of communities, institutions, or homes.

There is no PREVENTATIVE measure that is 100% effective. The fact of the matter is that impaired individuals want to walk, and have a modicum of freedom no matter what lock or alert system is put in place. They will get out.

As part of EmFinders' mission to help rapidly locate and recover the lost, we have created a means to significantly reduce risk management while protecting care community residents. With the EmFinders EmSeeQ device, if a resident wanders we will use the state-of-art E911 emergency location system to find them.

The emotional and institutional damage that an elopement can wreak is often catastrophic. I regularly read about wandering and missing impaired individuals from across the country.

Each story of a missing impaired individual highlights important lessons for communities and caregivers:

1. Wanderers can travel a great distance. Recently, A 75-year-old Arizona man was found 24 hours after he had been reported missing. He had traveled approximately 75 miles in that time.
2. They can be very hard to find. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department had to deploy a helicopter to find a missing 67-year-old woman with dementia in Florida.
3. Wanderers are resourceful. An Indianapolis teenager with Autism cut off (another firm's) device from his wrist and disappeared over a recent weekend.
4. Especially vulnerable when in transit. An elderly Queens, NY man with Alzheimer's disease was found dead not long ago — hours after a car service for the disabled took him home but allowed him to wander off.

With over 75 rescues enabled this year, EmFinders' mission is dedicated to 100% recovery of missing, impaired individuals.

Our mission is simple: to locate the lost.

Minutes matter (we average just under 30 minutes from notification to rescue), and we know the consequences are all too real. The EmFinders device, along with the care and vigilance of a caregiver, are the best means to keep individuals with impairments safe.