Senior Safety
Silver Alert
Assisting Lost Seniors
By: Prime Time Radio | Source: AARP Radio | March 17, 2009
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The Amber Alert has been a successful public-safety tool, which distributes information about lost and endangered children through just about every media outlet imaginable.
Now, some states are mimicking the missing-child protocol to alert the public about elders who can't find their way home.
The missing-elder protocol is called the “Silver Alert.” Independent producer Rich Halten brings us this story.
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