Linking the road system with missing dementia patients

The more road intersections a person with dementia has to navigate, the higher the chances of them getting lost. — Filepic

People with dementia are more likely to go missing in areas where road networks are dense, complicated and disordered, finds new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom.

Researchers studied hundreds of “missing person” police reports for people with dementia and compared each case to the surrounding road network.