Tasmania Police
National Missing Persons Week 2009: 2-8 August
35,000 people are reported missing each year in Australia. While 95 percent of people are found within a short period of time, there remains approximately 1,600 long term missing persons; those who have been missing for more than six months.
The focus for National Missing Persons Week this year is on older people with dementia or memory loss, as a key group at risk of going missing. Memory loss and wandering are the more common symptoms of dementia, which often lead to the disappearance of an older person.
To highlight this group at risk of going missing, the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre is working with key partners Alzheimer's Australia and Homelessness Australia. For the first time this year National Missing Persons Week is joining with National Homeless Persons Week to ask and answer the question: "Where do they go?"
For more information about Missing Persons in Australia and internationally visit the National Missing Persons website (www.missingpersons.gov.au).
(3 August 2009)
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