Silver alert: Societal aging, dementia, and framing a social problem

Gina Petonito; Glenn W. Muschert

doi:10.4324/9781315209371

Silver alert: Societal aging, dementia, and framing a social problem

Gina Petonito, Glenn W. Muschert

Miami University

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Abstract

Silver Alert programs are designed to engage the public in helping locate missing adults and return them to their loved ones. In general, these policies are an adaptation or outgrowth of the AMBER (America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert system used to identify and return missing children to their parents or guardians. When an adult is reported missing, Silver Alert and related programs provide information to media outlets and the Department of Transportation to activate roadside signs and/or emergency alert systems through law enforcement agencies. Adults with signi?cant cognitive impairments are most of these programs’ central focus (Carr et al., 2009; Petonito, Muschert, Carr, Kinney, Robbins, & Brown, 2013).

Original language	British English
Title of host publication	Critical Gerontology Comes of Age
Subtitle of host publication	Advances in Research and Theory for a New Century
Pages	134-150
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351806466
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315209371
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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