Search dogs being trained to hunt down dementia patients who go missing
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mirror.co.ukSearch dogs are being trained to track down dementia patients who go missing as part of a £1million scheme. Around 100 are involved in the Search Dog Heroes initiative to help police, relatives and care workers bring vulnerable people back to safety.
The dogs are schooled for a year to 18 months and work with their owners, who are skilled handlers. The first active search dog, Roo the labrador-springer spaniel, has already found a dementia patient who went missing from a care home in Berkshire.
The five-year-old and her owner Jo Armstrong, a volunteer with the Lowland Rescue service that is training the dogs, responded to the missing person’s scent that had been previously collected as a precaution.
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