The man told police he had lived in Launceston 20 years ago. <\/p>\n
A man suffering from dementia and reliant on a walking frame has been found nearly 200 kilometres from a Hobart nursing home after going missing. <\/p>\n
The 67-year-old man, diagnosed with severe dementia, has been unable to tell police why he walked out of the St Ann's home wearing slippers in wet weather and caught a bus to Launceston. <\/p>\n
Locals found the confused man wandering a South Launceston street, to the relief of police who had concentrated their search around the home after he'd gone missing at about midday on Sunday. <\/p>\n
\"Because of his walking frame our focus was making sure he wasn't somewhere in the complex, and then we focused on about a 500-metre radius,\" police inspector Colin Riley told AAP. <\/p>\n
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\"With dementia you're more likely to have just stumbled into someone's yard and fallen over or something like that.\" <\/p>\n
The search was made more urgent by the possibility that the man could have collapsed because he'd missed his scheduled dose of insulin, Inspector Riley said. <\/p>\n
A bus ticket was found in one of his pockets and relatives told police he had lived in Launceston 20 years ago, but nowhere near the street where he was found. <\/p>\n
\"He didn't know where he was and he didn't know how he got there,\" Inspector Riley said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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