{"id":79846,"date":"2026-08-27T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79846"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:39:49","slug":"his-father-with-dementia-vanished-near-home-how-can-singapore-keep-these-seniors-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79846","title":{"rendered":"His father with dementia vanished near home. How can Singapore keep these seniors safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a two-part special, Talking Point finds out how someone with dementia can go missing for long stretches in a safe, connected city and whether such disappearances can be prevented.<\/p>\n<p>The programme also travels to Japan, which has the world\u2019s second-oldest population after Monaco, to learn how some of its cities rally families, businesses and residents to help keep people with dementia safe.<\/p>\n<h2>WHY THEY WANDER\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Dementia, a brain condition that may progressively impair memory, thinking and language functions, among other things, can leave a person disorientated or lost even in a familiar place.<\/p>\n<p>People with dementia may set out for the market, then forget why they left home, how to go back or how long they have been outside, cited Jinesh Mukesh Shah, a consultant in the National Neuroscience Institute\u2019s neurology department.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH: My mum went missing \u2014 Why people with dementia wander (22:32)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/cna-insider\/dementia-patients-wander-go-missing-singapore-japan-seniors-safe-6342131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a two-part special, Talking Point finds out how someone with dementia can go missing for long stretches in a safe, connected city and whether&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--tN3S-NPb--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/26\/cna_hd_the_nuclear_option_ep3_textless_220726_1500_dnmc5553654.00_02_41_08.still080.jpg?itok=NSqfdW7g","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4112,2699,469,1086,5547,22,28985],"class_list":["post-79846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-dementia","tag-father","tag-home","tag-safe","tag-seniors","tag-singapore","tag-vanished","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}