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Missing Drivers With Dementia: Antecedents And Recovery, Meredeth Rowe, Catherine Greenblum, Marie Boltz, James E. Galvin
Missing Drivers With Dementia: Antecedents And Recovery, Meredeth Rowe, Catherine Greenblum, Marie Boltz, James E. Galvin
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Objectives: To determine the circumstances under which persons with dementia become lost while driving, how missing drivers are found, and how Silver Alert notifications are instrumental in those discoveries.
Design: A retrospective, descriptive study.
Setting: Retrospective record review.
Participants: Conducted using 156 records from the Florida Silver Alert program for October 2008 through May 2010. These alerts were issued in Florida for missing drivers with dementia.
Measurements: Information derived from the reports on characteristics of the missing driver, antecedents to missing event, and discovery of a missing driver.
Results: The majority of missing drivers were men aged 58 to 94 …