Action needed to prevent harm to dementia patients going missing, say researchers

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By Emma Wilkinson

One in 10 times that a person with dementia goes missing results in serious harm, according to UK research which concludes that services need to provide more targeted risk assessment.

The analysis of police-recorded incidents in two regions over a six-year period found that 414 (27%) out of 1540 missing person reports in the over 65s involved people with dementia.