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Ridgewood Dementia Patient Who Wandered off Discovered at Strip Mall

Ridgewood Dementia Patient Who Wandered off Discovered at Strip Mall

photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook page

September 15,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, A tracking K9 was deployed in the search for an adult male dementia patient who wandered away from a Ridgewood nursing home on Thursday afternoon, 09/14. The patient was missing for over two (2) hours before being located by a Ridgewood Police patrol officer at a strip mall on Route 17 southbound in Paramus. Prior to being found at the strip mall, the patient had also been spotted on the front porch of a single family home near the intersection of Route 17 and Linwood Avenue. Two (2) Ridgewood Police patrol officers returned the unharmed man to the nursing home just prior to 3:00 p.m.

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