Outremont seniors home uses AirTags to balance independence and safety [Video]

An Outremont seniors’ home has introduced AirTags to help locate residents with cognitive decline, offering them greater independence while ensuring their safety.

“We don’t want to impair their freedom,” said Marie-Pierre Tessier the co-owner of Residence Outremont.

Out of the 35 residents who at the home, only four use the AirTags. Residents and their family members have to give their consent beforehand.

“We put it on them either in their handbag, their keys, something that they always have with them when they go outside,” she explained.

Only Tessier, her business partner, Camille Ciupka, and the families have access to the residents’ location.

“Resident, when we see they want to go outside, but we see they keep getting lost or anything. So, it’s so we have a discussion with the family saying, ‘I think it would be a good idea to add that’ so they can keep going outside, but we …