COLORADO LIFE TRAK

A program for locating missing persons with Dementia
Now Available to residents of Teller County

Supported by Teller County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Kevin Dougherty
“Serving and Protecting our Community with Integrity and Respect”

Links:

Teller County Sheriff's Office

Colorado Life Trak Offers Participants

How Colorado Life Trak works

The Partnership with Law Enforcement

Why is Colorado Life Trak Important?

How to sign up for Colorado Life Trak

How can you get involved?

The Teller County Sheriff’s Office has brought Colorado Life Trak - at no cost to participants - to assist its residents who have medical conditions that may cause them to wander.  The project is a rapid-response partnership with law enforcement aiding victims and families suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and  related disorders and conditions such as Down Syndrome and Autism.

Colorado Life Trak Offers Participants:

• A “tried and true” radio technology that provides tracking through a wristband worn by the participant.
• Rescue teams from the Teller County Sheriff’s Office. Reduced search times from hours and days to minutes.
• A proven lifesaving system that is reliable, responsive, practical and affordable.
  

How Colorado Life Trak works:

• A family member or a caregiver of an Alzheimer’s patient (or other related disorder) calls the Teller County Sheriff’s Office project manager to sign up for Colorado Life Trak.
• Participants wear a personalized  wristband which emits a tracking signal 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over several miles.
• Caregivers notify the Teller County Sheriff’s Office when a participant is missing.
• A search and rescue team responds to the call and uses a mobile locator tracking system to find the Colorado Life Trak participant.
  

Forms:

Clients Personal Data

Program Contract

Caregiver Instructions

School Instructions

Battery Template

A wrist band transmitter is placed on a patient.

A deputy uses a receiver unit to locate a  signal emitted by the wrist band transmitter.

The Partnership with Law Enforcement:

Colorado Life Trak saves lives and further serves the community by significantly reducing the need for extensive search and rescue operations that are extremely costly in terms of human and financial resources. Searches for wandering individuals that have taken days and scores of searchers can be successfully concluded in less than an hour if Colorado Life Trak is available in the community. This partnership and the program’s effectiveness and reliability has earned Colorado Life Trak the  endorsement of the National Sheriff’s Association. 

Why is Colorado Life Trak Important?

• Approximately 4.5 million people in the United States have Alzheimer’s and related disorders—60,000 of which live in Colorado.
• Of these, around 60% will wander during the course of their disease—approximately 36,000 in Colorado alone.
• Many wander at night, when usual search options are difficult.  They can also become paranoid, and actually hide to avoid rescue.
• This technology can locate any wanderer during the day or night, in any weather – even if he/she is not cooperating in his/her own  rescue effort.

How to sign up for Colorado Life Trak:

Family members or caregivers who want to sign up their loved one for
Colorado Life Trak must call:

Teller County Sheriff’s Office
11400 W. Hwy 24
Divide, CO 80814
Phone: (719) 687-9652
Detective Rick Williams
E-mail: williamsr@co.teller.co.us

How can you get involved?

There are several ways you can help in your community through Colorado Life Trak.