My mother went missing once.
She was found downtown and returned.
Family decided she was walking across town to the house she grew up in.
Always the best place to start the search from.
She has since passed on.
My grandfather had dementia and was being taken care of by his middle aged daughter, in her RURAL MS home.
One day he was missing and was found by neighbors down the road walking down the dirt road naked................
That is what I was thinking.
People with dementia are still in there. They are trying to follow their memories to a happier place and time.
The Lord knows I get that urge from time to time.
The only reason I don’t act on it is that I not yet senile enough to think those places are still there. Give it another decade or so though.
The father of my friend would drive to town. Since the town he was going to was actually no longer there, he became very confused. None of the businesses he was looking for were still in town.
So, he went to his insurance agengy. They arranged to get him home. That happened several times until his driving privaledges were removed.