Wandering Off
People who suffer from Dementia tend to disregard their surroundings, disassociate, and delude themselves into a different mind-frame. There is not much to do to prevent those who have these kinds of illnesses from wandering off. The best course of action is to stick near them at all times, just in case they have an episode, which the old man did, and somehow she just slipped through his fingers.
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