The incidence of elopement of an at-risk person from a caregiving facility or other environment can be reduced by providing staff more time to intervene. This may be accomplished by a system having one more recording players positioned near an exit. The players serve to distract the at-risk person who may be wandering towards a controlled area, such as an exit door. The at-risk person may have dementia, and a recording player may play a song to which the at-risk person is known to have an emotional response. An identification sensor near the exit can be used to ascertain the identity of the at-risk person. A computer matches the ascertained identity to a recording of the song and instructs the player to play that song.
