UPDATE: Thomas Mendrala has been located and is safe.
A Silver Alert has been issued for an Alzheimer’s patient who left an assisted living facility in The Villages.
Thomas “Tom” Mendrala, 84, who has cognitive impairment/early stage Alzheimers left the Watercrest Assisted Living Facility in the Spanish Springs area on Friday, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. He was last seen at about 10 p.m. Friday in the area of El Camino Real and Buena Vista Boulevard.
Mendrala contacted a family member on Saturday stating that he was lost and did not know how to get home…