Help to find an unremovable bracelet for confused patients?

[Beekissed]

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EXACTLY! This was my father to a "T".

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I used to have to wear a diabetes alert bracelet when I was a kid that was a pain in the butt to take off. I usually needed pliers or a screw driver. I never took the darn thing off. Eventually they would just get tight and I'd have my mom take it off and I would get a new one.

You could probably just do a search for medalert metal bracelets and you'd find them. They were just made of a cheaper type of metal.

Actually, I just found a link to the same type of bracelet. Very difficult to get off unless you constantly work at it.

http://www.medicalert.org/shop/medi...tail/A091.htm?n=Large-Red-Medical-ID-Bracelet

 

[Beekissed]

I bet if you wedged it around an object and just pulled, it would separate at the plate attachment. These people don't just try to unfasten the bracelets....they will try everything imaginable to remove it.

 

[heatherindeskies]

Thanks guys, I am making a list of these ideas as they come through!

 

[mom'sfolly]

I think a fused nylon webbing band, something like what they use for seat belts and dog collars would work. The key would be to have some kind of very difficult fastener to hold it all together. I think it would be comfortable to wear, and extremely difficult to cut. I know when I have had to cut those kind of materials, it has required a sharp box knife and a good deal of force.

I think that any of the proposed solutions can be worked around. Nothing is going to be perfect. I would think, however, that solutions are out there. Most nursing homes/memory care facilities have these kind of issues. I also think that rethinking the facility might be needed. If you have angry, combative, escape driven residents in with the general population, you have an accident waiting to happen. If these people are in with people who know and can shut off alarms, something is going to happen. Many nursing homes, and care facilities have different "levels" which include more secure levels for at risk patients. You might have to get to this level with a key card or other code. This physical separation might be as simple as a set of doors that remain locked, or as complex as a whole wing for "difficult" residents.

 

[WingingIt]

When I delivered my second child the military hospital there had a band they put on the baby and each section of the floor/hospital had alarm code boxes. The baby couldn't pass by the alarm box without the alarm going off if the code wasn't punched in by a nurse (I could walk my baby in my section, but to leave my section required an escort) within 3-5 seconds or something like that. If it went off, everything locked up, elevators, doors, etc. They said if it was cut off, the same thing would happen, everything would lock up. They did have a hand held computer thing that they brought in to deactivate it (I guess) before they removed it when we were leaving the hospital. So maybe a maternity ward could help direct you to something similar?