Taipei Times
Date: Aug 24, 2019
By: Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Elderly people, especially those with signs of dementia, should wear tracking bracelets, which boosts
Professional golfer Yani Tseng, second left, poses for a photograph with representatives from the Federation for the Welfare of the Elderly and the Anfa Clinic at a news conference in Taipei on Thursday.
Photo: Yang Mien-chieh, Taipei Times
Since its inception in 2001, the federation has collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare in searches for 7,701 elderly people.
Of those, 1,350 did not have tracking bracelets, the ministry said, adding that 341 of them have not been found.
The ministry estimated that it finds 75 percent of those it is tasked with finding.
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