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"Angel Box" installed at MTR 47 stations with special device to help find lost dementia patients

2022-09-20T16:14:51.629Z


Dementia patients have been lost from time to time. The Jockey Club Senior Citizen Park conducted an investigation earlier and found that more than 30,000 people with dementia had been lost last year. Recently, the Senior Citizen Park has cooperated with the MTR, in 47 MTR stations and 4 MTR stations in Hong Kong.


Dementia patients have been lost from time to time. The Jockey Club Senior Citizen Park conducted an investigation earlier and found that more than 30,000 people with dementia had been lost last year.

Recently, Senior Citizen Park has cooperated with MTR to install "Angel Boxes" equipped with Bluetooth positioning devices in 47 MTR stations and 4 light rail station customer service centers in Hong Kong to provide community support for dementia patients and their caregivers. .


As long as a person with dementia wears a special electronic device, as long as they walk 50 meters away from the MTR Customer Service Center during the loss, the Bluetooth and positioning functions in the program will detect their location and send a "lost push notification" to their family members and residents. Citizens who have installed the "Youli Track" app.

The box will report in real time, so that caregivers can grasp the traces of the lost elders as soon as possible and help the lost people get assistance.


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In 2019, the Jockey Club Senior Citizen Park, together with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and St. James' Settlement, launched the "Jockey Club 'Trail of Friends' Community Project", which has been in operation for 3 years.

Eligible seniors with dementia can apply for a "Guardian Track" Bluetooth device for free, and citizens can also download the "Youli Track" mobile app. When the caregiver "reports a loss" in the app, the system will notify the public to turn on the GPS location of the mobile phone and Bluetooth.

If a “guardian” signal of a lost elder is detected nearby, the user’s location data will be uploaded to the cloud in an anonymous form, and a “lost push notification” will be sent to the family to assist the caregiver to find the person.

Lost elders can automatically detect their location if they pass within 50 meters of the MTR Customer Service Center

It is planned to be applied to the public transport network at the end of last year, firstly installed at 5 large bus stops, and recently extended to the MTR.

There are currently 47 MTR stations and 4 light rail station customer service center tablet computers that have downloaded the "Youli Tracks" app.

When a dementia patient gets lost, once they pass within 50 meters of the MTR Customer Service Center, the Bluetooth and positioning functions in the program will detect their location.

Zhang Qiwen, senior project director of the Jockey Club Senior Citizen Park, pointed out that if more citizens download the Youli Tracking App and turn their mobile phones into mobile receivers, the speed and effect of tracing people will be enhanced.

▼ On January 3, "Angel Boxes" were installed at five KMB stations.


Leung Jingwen, general manager of MTR marketing and customer experience, said that 480,000 passengers are elderly every day, accounting for 11% of the total passenger volume.

She pointed out that within this year, 98 MTR stations and mobile service teams will be equipped with related applications on their tablet computers, which she believes will help more lost people with dementia to reunite with their families.

A 76-year-old man with dementia was missing from the Accident and Emergency Department of Pok Oi Hospital for half a day. He was found in Yuen Long in the early hours of Thursday. Degenerative patients?

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Source: hk1

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