According to McKnight's, Charles Klaer, a 72-year-old resident with advanced Alzheimer's disease, walked out of a nursing home where he was a resident, and was struck by a car and killed on a highway a mile-and-a-half away from the facility. Only a few days before, Mr. Klaer had wandered from Willow Manor Retirement Living and Memory Support Center in Dania Beach, FL, causing officials to call his wife requesting consent for an electronic strap around his ankle.
Klaer was not wearing the ankle monitor when he wandered away. Klaer's family hired a private investigator, Robert Myers, who said he found the monitor next to Klaer's bed in perfect working order, without any damages or cuts. A sheriff's office detective is searching to see if anyone was criminally negligent at Willow Manor.
According to McKnight's, Harold Baldwin, president of Secure Care Products Inc., the company that made the electronic monitoring device, said once the filament strap is wrapped around a person's ankle and snapped shut, it stays on permanently, even in the bath.
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