3 Elderly Americans lost for 3 days in Miami

[Enosekel]

I don't see how this could possibly be real, but if it is, that's hilarious! I'm surprised they didn't get jacked or something:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....x6bx2vfk.html

[Aldar]

i suppose pulling over for a minute and asking is too much to ask?

[Sebboe]

I'm sure there are a lot more than 3 blue-haris lost in Florida. Those 3 just happened to get noticed.

[Enosekel]

I wondered about asking directions myself. I figured maybe they did, but they forgot, or they didn't understand the directions.

One of my first jobs back when I started high school was working in a nursing home with Alzheimer's patients and elderly people who were confused for one reason or another. You'd be amazed what medications, old age, and losing touch with/falling behind modern-day understandings of the world can do to a person's concept of reality.

[Karmei]

There is an old people's home in a town near where I live that is set sort of off in the country. They have these big yellow signs near the road that say: Watch For Elderly. Which in itelf is not so exciting but they had an old man with Alzheimers escape the building and he was walking down the middle of the road with no shoes in the dead of winter a few years back and was almost hit. So yeah, they can get all kinds of confused and crazy like.

[Isaviel]

Unfortunately the disease is a horrible thing. I lost my best friend's mom to the disease and she was in her early 50's. But they get more than confused. I'm surprised that they're allowed to drive. With my best friend's mom it came down to where she forgot how to eat and to breathe. At any rate they're lucky they lasted that long.

[Graeblyn]

In England, the gov't actually has a special street sign that they put up whenever you are approaching a nursing home, senior living development, etc. It has a graphic of a little old person wobbling on a cane crossing a street.

At first, I thought it was a rather demeaning thing to do, but I am discovering as I drive around, that it's a VERY GOOD thing they do have the signs, since so many more of them seem to be wandering the streets in a dangerous manner.