Online app helps find 100 lost elderly in China

An elderly man is reflected in a fisheye mirror as he walks at a residential area in Beijing on September 28, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO

More than 1,370 people age 60 or over go missing every day in China, according to a new report. 

The White Paper on the Lost Elderly, released on Oct 9, states that Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are a major cause of such disappearances.