When I was at work I was walking to the back of the store when an older woman approached me. She grabbed my arm and asked me for help. She looked terrified. I asked how I could be of assistance and she asked me how to get out of the store. She said she was lost and couldn’t find the doors which were a few steps away.
She had such a blank look on her face, it scared me. I took her hand and we went to a manager. I told the manager that something was wrong and I thought the woman had alzheimers and was lost. We comforted her because even when she saw the doors she forgot she wanted to leave, We wondered if she lived alone, we didn’t know at that time..
The police were called and they said they would help her. We couldn’t just turn her out without trying to help.
Come to find out she had walked out of her nursing home in one of her lucid moments, and then got scared. Her family has since placed her in a better facility. I cried so hard for her. This really traumatized me. My heart breaks for anyone going through this. God bless these elderly children.
We had to put my mother in a home after years of trying care for her. Every time I walked in, some older woman - never a man for some reason - would always ask me for help getting them out of the place.
It is a sad time.