17 Jan 2013

Elderly woman with dementia missing

10:03 pm on 17 January 2013

Police are looking for an elderly dementia sufferer who has gone missing from her resthome in the Auckland suburb of Remuera.

Paula Walden, 82, has been missing from the MacMurray Road facility since 6.30am on Thursday.

Police say she has travelled as far as Greenlane and Birkenhead in the past.

She is described as Pakeha, thin and with grey hair.

Ms Walden was wearing blue trousers and sweat-top, and normally has a soft toy cat tucked into the neck of her top.