Family pleads for answers after 80-year-old woman with dementia vanishes from DeKalb County home

Police are searching for an 80-year-old woman with dementia who wandered off from her DeKalb County home last week.

The family is still searching and is concerned at this point.

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DeKalb County police are hoping Channel 2 Action News viewers can help them locate Rosa Mae Dawson.

Officers came out and searched near the area of the 2400 block of Jenay Court, the day her family reported her missing.

She was last seen on Nov. 13, wearing a pink long-sleeved pajama pants set and black shoes.

The missing woman’s son, Ricky Dawson, and his entire family are worried about his 80-year-old mother.

Ricky Dawson says his mother has been dealing with dementia for the last five years, but says she doesn’t ever leave their street.

“Every now and then she’d have spells like, “Who is that she wouldn’t remember,” maybe events that happened a couple of d ofays ago. But for the most part, I would probably say 75% of the time she had her wits about her,” Ricky Dawson said.

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