To enhance the efficiency in locating missing elderly persons with dementia, officers of Operations Bureau of New Territories South (OPS NTS) visited the public housing estates in the Region in January and February. They cooperated with the security and property management sector and encouraged frontline security personnel to register as “Dementia Angels” through the mobile app “Caring for the Communities for Dementia”, with which the locations of missing elderly persons carrying Bluetooth trackers can be detected. The project aims to expand the protection network in the community so that missing elderly persons with dementia can be brought home as early as possible.

Project L-Homecoming is a project launched by OPS NTS in collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing. It aims to provide viable means for elderly persons with dementia and their caretakers to avoid getting loss by combining the community network and technology. Since the launch of the project, over 4 400 elderly persons with dementia have been provided with iBeacon Bluetooth devices, whilst the mobile app has had 40 000 accumulated downloads. A location-tracing network system has been established successfully to reduce the risk of elderly persons with dementia coming across accidents.

NTS officers cooperate with the security and management sector to locate the missing elderly.