SARATOGA COUNTY —The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America recently awarded $5,000 each to the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office and nine other organizations throughout the country via a grant for Project Lifesaver, an international organization that supplies equipment to electronically track people at risk.
According to the original press release, Project Lifesaver “allows caregivers to voluntarily register their relatives with dementia or autism to wear a small wrist or ankle transmitter that emits an individualized tracking signal.”
Deputy Jason Lang of the Saratoga Sheriff’s Office said that the grant money would be going mostly to receivers, as each one costs around $1,200.
He also clarified that the Project Lifesaver equipment was not replacing traditional search and rescue operations, only supplementing them and giving another means to locate a lost person, potentially reducing search time from hours or days to minutes.
For more information, contact the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office at 518-885-6761, or visit its website at www.saratogacountysheriff.org; or visit the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America’s website, at www.alzfnd.org.
