16
2011
Highland woman, 81, safe after going missing
An article by Angela Niemi
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department employed both the K-9 Unit and the Aviation Unit to help search for an elderly woman who went missing yesterday morning, Nov. 15, in Highland Township and was found just hours after being reported missing.
The woman, 81-year-old Highland Township resident Patricia Lee Zebda, had last been seen sleeping at a residence in the 700 block of Allen Road near Grandview by her daughter at around 3:30 a.m. before the daughter left for work.
When a caregiver arrived at the residence around noon, Zebda, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, was nowhere to be found.
She was found by two passersby on Milford Road yesterday afternoon. They had heard someone moaning and saying “Help me” from a large ditch in front of the Highland Greens Estates mobile home park and found Zebda lying face-down on the edge of the ditch.
The two people brought her to safety and provided her with a blanket to warm up while calling 911, according to Sheriff’s Department officials.
Zebda was treated at the scene by the Highland Township Fire Department personnel and was transported to a local hospital for evaluation.
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Glad to hear she was found alive and well.
Not glad to hear that she was left alone for an extended period of time so she could wander off.
Why wasn’t the caregiver there earlier than “around noon” ?
Also, if she has such bad Alzheimer’s (and thus gets lost easily), then it’s obviously time to put her in a nursing home where she can be watched around the clock by trained professionals and thus get the help and support she needs. A Life Alert-like device would also be a good idea to pin on her – especially one with a GPS locator alarm device.
Such common sense actions will go a long way towards ensuring that she continues to stay safe.
I too am happy she was found alive. It is truely a shame what is happening in society today. You hear more and more about older people wandering off, or being found deceased in their homes, why?…..because their selfish adult children and grandchildren simply don’t seem to care. I am sure the daughter was probably doing the best she could do, given the lack of help from other family members. Why do adult siblings dump all the responsibility on one person? You know “what goes around, comes around” and “you reap what you sow” (keep this in mind siblings. May God watch over this poor woman and here daughter in the days to come.