I have an elderly family member. He lives about four hours away and no family live near him. His mental health is drastically declining and he’s now at a point where we have doctors/social services/police involved but he is refusing to move into a home, or closer to us. The big problem we have is that he is a wanderer, and will go missing for days so when we call to check, we can’t find him. When we visit, he often forgets we are due, and we will spend hours trying to find him in his local area. Last month he was missing for 8 hours and when he got home, he said he’d been in the supermarket (we had checked several times and didn’t find him in there). I’ve said I’d like to put an AirTag on his keys, so when he goes missing we can find him. He has no idea what it is, doesn’t have a mobile and doesn’t understand technology. He might consent to the tracking one day, but won’t remember the next. Would it be acceptable for me to put it on his keys anyway? He always takes his keys when he leaves, so I think it would be a good way to find him if he goes missing again?
obviously we are working to get the situation sorted, this is just a short term solution to try and keep him safe.
YANBU- track him
YABU- it’s violating his privacy and shouldn’t be done without him fully understanding and remembering it’s happening