San Antonio Report: It took nearly 5 years to find Maria Llamas after she went missing. Did it need to?
Posted on: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Neela K. Patel, MD, professor and chief of geriatrics and supportive care in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, and outreach recruitment and engagement director at the university’s Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, tells the San Antonio Report that it’s easy for elderly Alzheimer’s patients to wander away and not come back, and urges their children to make sure they have a way of tracking them in case they go missing. Ultimately, she says, there needs to be a system in place that helps identify them and get them the care and protection they need.
Read the article at SanAntonioReport.org.