{"id":134118,"date":"2022-01-16T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dementia-patients-used-morse-code-training-to-escape-from-a-senior-living-facility"},"modified":"2022-01-16T03:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:22:58","slug":"dementia-patients-used-morse-code-training-to-escape-from-a-senior-living-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dementia-patients-used-morse-code-training-to-escape-from-a-senior-living-facility","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Patients Used Morse Code Training to Escape From a Senior Living Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dementia-patients-used-morse-code-training-to-escape-from-a-senior-living-facility.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a scene straight out of a spy movie, an elderly couple reportedly escaped from an assisted living facility using some cunning military expertise\u2014and an antiquated telecommunications method.<\/p>\n<p>On March 2, 2020, a resident of a secure memory care unit in Elmcroft of Lebanon, a Tennessee nursing facility, \u201celoped\u201d with his wife from the premises, according to a state report on the incident. (The <em>Tennessean <\/em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/health\/2021\/04\/30\/couple-escapes-assisted-living-facility-military-morse-code-training\/7166012002\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/health\/2021\/04\/30\/couple-escapes-assisted-living-facility-military-morse-code-training\/7166012002\/\">first reported the incident<\/a> last month.) The man was admitted to Elmcroft with a diagnosis of dementia, while the woman was admitted with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>A stranger spotted the residents, who were safe, walking two blocks from Elmcroft about 30 minutes after they left and picked them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scene straight out of a spy movie, an elderly couple reportedly escaped from an assisted living facility using some cunning military expertise\u2014and an antiquated telecommunications method. On March 2, 2020, a resident of a secure memory care unit in Elmcroft of Lebanon, a Tennessee nursing facility, \u201celoped\u201d with his wife from the premises, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}