Missing Alzheimer’s Resident
Posted by Kim on December 29th, 2005 / Print This Post
A man with Alzheimer’s disease wandered away from an assisted living home. He hasn’t been found yet and the search has been called off.
The search for an 86-year-old man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease was called off Tuesday after hundreds of volunteers completed a 30-hour rescue effort that began Monday morning.Herbert Moore was last seen at the Carolina House assisted-living facility on Hastings Lane at 5:30 a.m. Monday, according to Elizabeth City Police Capt. G.F. Koch. Moore was discovered to be missing at 8:30 a.m. and authorities began searching for him at about 10:30 a.m.
Moore was convalescing at Carolina House after a recent medical procedure at Albemarle Hospital, according to Moore’s son, Herbert Moore Jr. He had been telling relatives he wanted to go back to his home on Loop Lane, off Millpond Road in Morgan’s Corner.
Moore is a World War II veteran and a father of nine. He is a retired longshoreman and minister.
Since retiring 22 years ago, Moore has enjoyed an active life, fishing, hunting and raising pigs, his son said. But his health had been deteriorating in recent years.
His son said it is difficult to know what state of mind Moore was in when he left the nursing home.