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A man with dementia who was reported missing from his family’s Palo Alto home since Wednesday morning was found early Thursday morning downtown, police said.
Peihuang Weng, 80, was last seen leaving his family’s home in the 4000 block of Wilkie Way, about a block north of West Meadow Drive, around 11 a.m. Wednesday for the Mitchell Park Library about a mile away, police said in a news release. He did not return home later that night, which led police to issue a missing-person alert.
Weng speaks Chinese and a limited amount of English. He wears a name tag around his neck with his name and family’s contact information, according to police.
He was found around 5 a.m. Thursday in the 100 block of University Avenue just north of the Palo Alto Caltrain station and appeared to be OK, police said. He was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Neighboring law enforcement agencies assisted Palo Alto police in their search for Weng.
Is there any indication that he arrived or spent time at the Library?
Was he walking or on a bicycle?
This rain is heavy and it is worse now than it was during daylight. The rain could have made anyone get disorientated in the dark.
I hope he is found soon.
After we received the phone alert last night, I looked outside just to see if by any chance he might be in our neighborhood. I said a prayer for finding him.
How terrible this disease is, and how frightened this elderly man must have been wandering around helplessly in the heavy rain.
Thank you to the person or the team who found him.
So dementia can come and go? Are people sometimes okay and other days not? Why wouldn’t a family lock him in the house if he could get lost? This was a waste of people’s time due to an irresponsible family. It seems there is an occurrence at least once a month and people are going to get numb to pleas.
This is so scary for the family and the individual! Thank goodness they found him. We have recently started using a new service called Mon Ami, https://www.monami.io/ which books a college student to play games and spend time with my father who also has dementia. It’s a really great service to have a friendly helper spend some time with my dad and make sure someone has an eye on him.
Only 55, what’s with the harsh assessment? People with Alzheimer Disease and other dementias are still people with their own sense of self and at least some degree of free will. Moreover, stuff happens in the *best* of well-regulated families. I suspect that if the person under discussion were your family member (or perhaps even you), you also might welcome a compassionate rather than a hostile response.