My 60-year-old brother has early onset Alzheimer's Disease. He no longer drives, but he is lives in NYC and, for now, he is able to continue walking around the familiar locations within the city independently with minimal problems. However, he tends to lose things (most recently his wallet). Any recommendations for products to help keep small items like phones and wallets securely attached to a person?
Even without dementia, it makes finding his missed placed wallet easier
"Operator Error" is the problem with any of those types of solutions. Even if you put an Apple Airtag in his wallet, he will still lose it. What will happen the first time he has a memory blip while out and about and cannot remember where he is or where he lives and doesn't think to ask someone for help or use his phone to call? This is exactly what happened to my friend's Mom who had a blip while simply driving home from the vet: she got lost for 14 hrs and didn't once think to stop and ask for help or call her daughter. That's what dementia does to people.
All this to say maybe consider "security devices" a waste of time and money and go directly to a more reliable solution, like a good facility or a companion aid? He will need it eventually, anyway. Why wait to scramble for it in a crisis?