LocateMyThings for Vulnerable People

LocateMyThings are dedicated to the provision of devices that will assist in maintaining the health and safety of vulnerable people.

LocateMyThings are have been following the introduction of The Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty safeguards with the Department of Health.  These safeguards came into effect on 1st April 2009.

The Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty safeguards are designed to protect the interests of an extremely vulnerable group of service users and to:

• ensure people can be given the care they need in the least restrictive regimes
• prevent arbitrary decisions that deprive vulnerable people of their liberty
• provide safeguards for vulnerable people
• provide them with rights of challenge against unlawful detention
• avoid unnecessary bureaucracy

As stated above, there is still a real need to provide safeguards for vulnerable people when they exercise their rights to leave hospitals and care homes and visit the wider community where there are potential dangers to both themselves and even those around them.

LocateMyThings offers a service that allows those registered under the Care Standards Act 2000 to have their liberties safeguarded at the same time as their safety protected.

LocateMyThings.com offer a wide range of discreet devices, accessories and subscriptions for Families, Local Authorities and NHS Trusts to be able to take advantage of the LocateMyThings Services. With its MSoft eSolutions background, LocateMyThings has a great deal of experience in larger NHS and Local Authority tracking solutions on an enterprise level and has used this experience to produce best of breed location tracking solutions from LocateMyThings.

The Devices:

Each vulnerable person can wear a discreet device as a wrist or arm band (or even on a belt) or carry a device with them in a pocket or bag:

These devices do not infringe on any rights of liberty as it does not ‘track' and individual so you cannot (unless you specifically want to) track the history of where someone has been. You can however use the LocateMyThings dashboard to instantly ‘locate' the vulnerable individual out in the community, you can also set vicinity alerts to alert you when an individual has left the safety of the hospital or care home and when they are nearing returning. As you can see from the image above, there is even a panic button should the individual need assistance.

The Dashboard:

The Dashboard can be used to:

• Set up a vicinity alert so when the vulnerable person leaves their 'home' location, you can be alerted via the dashboard and via SMS text message to multiple mobile phones
• Locate the individual at any time
• Preview the historical movements of the individual (optional)
• View low battery alerts (the units last for a minimum of 24 hours before requiring charging based on the type of unit and service)
• You can even dial into certain units to 'listen in' to the individual

The units themselves come with an SOS option that alerts the dashboard but also sends an immediate SMS text message to all mobiles numbers registered to the service.  If an emergency occurs then the SMS receiver can request emergency location updates to be sent to their phone at small intervals.

Who would this service be used by?

These services could be utilised by the care homes, hospitals, police and even family members to instantly locate vulnerable people when needed.