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Las Vegas-Area Nursing Facility Adopts RFID For Memory-Impaired Residents
August 6, 2010
•Las Vegas-Area Nursing Facility Adopts RFID For Memory-Impaired Residents
By Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal
When TLC Care Center, a habilitation, therapy and long-term nursing facility located approximately 20 miles southeast of Las Vegas, opened its new memory wing for residents with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of advanced dementia, it provided an RFID-enabled bracelet to each of the wing's residents, to ensure they don't wander away. By installing the system with the wing's very first residents, and by tweaking it as the number of residents grew, the center was able to customize the read range as necessary, to be sure alarms were sounded only when patients attempted to leave a secured area. Now, as the facility continues to grow, the system is tracking the locations of the wing's residents (it can accommodate a total of 50) with few false alarms.
Used with permission from RFID Journal, Inc.
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