The old woman surnamed Lu went out to pick up waste, but she couldn't find her way home.

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[Reporter Lin Minzhen/Taichung Report] An old woman surnamed Lu who was nearly 90 years old in Dali District, Taichung City went out to pick up waste on the 21st, but could not find her way home. The police used the incomplete address on the note in the old woman's hand, and used the Google Street View image for the old woman to identify, and successfully helped the old woman return home safely.

At about 2:50 p.m. on the 21st, Wang Yicheng, the deputy director of the Chenggong Police Station of the Wufeng Police Sub-station, and Wang Qizhong, a police officer, were reported that an old woman was lost. The address on the note was incomplete, so the police used Google Maps to find the Jiayinli area of ​​Wufeng District. The old woman recognized the location of her home from the recyclables at her door through the street view map, and the police drove the old woman to the alley at home. The old woman also thanked the police frequently.

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Chen Xianglin, director of the Wufeng branch, said that in order to cooperate with the "Police Administration of the Ministry of the Interior to promote community policing to start again" to promote the fingerprinting of the elderly with dementia, if the family members are willing, they can prepare a consent form and handbook of physical and mental disabilities, and arrange a time to come to the branch Make fingerprint cards and other related matters to improve the efficiency of finding the lost elderly.

In addition, if the elders in the family suffer from dementia, dementia and other symptoms, do not let them go out alone, and let the elders carry a note with the contact information of the family members or embroider it on the clothes, and ask the public or the police to help contact the family members. If you accidentally get lost, you can immediately report to the police for assistance and help the elder return home as soon as possible.

The old woman surnamed Lu only had a note on her body, and the address on it was incomplete.

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The police used clues from the note and Google Street View for the old woman to identify, and successfully found the old woman's house.

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