Wandering off by people with dementia continues to be a serious problem in Japan's rapidly aging society, with a record 15,863 such people reported missing in 2017, police data showed Thursday.A total of 227 could not be found by the end of the year, according to the National Police Agency. The number of missing person reports increased 431 from 2016 and represented a 65 percent rise from 2012 when comparable data became available.Local police have been working with municipal authorities to more quickly find wandering dementia patients, and some introduced new methods such as storing biomet…READ FULL ARTICLE
