My Dad has a tendency to 'wander', well as far as he's concerned he knows exactly where he's going but doesn't think to tell the rest of us!
Now he doesn't have his car it's less of a worry, but as others have said the only alternative at the moment is to keep him under lock and key. We tried that once and he was MAD!! It was my Mum's idea and I have to say not one of her better ones. It took me ages to calm him down.
It's a question of balance between respecting his independence and ensuring his safety. He takes the dog for a walk every day which is really good for him (and the dog
) but if he decided to get on the train to Manchester, which he threatened to do last week, who knows what would happen.
I just hope that this man is found safe and well.
Obviously if something as awful as this happened we would have to rethink our 'open door' policy.