Eileen Krupka's father has suffered from Alzheimer's Disease for the last six years. He's like many other's with the progressive neurological disease of the brain he wanders, in fact 60-percent of Alzheimers or dementia patients wander and its a worry for the Krupka family, who live in Baldwinsville.
We have a lot of water around us. and he seems to be fascinated by the water and that's a huge concern
Once he was missing for 45 minutes, wandering about the neighborhood. Family and friends went looking to no avail and it was then that Krupka was on the verge of going to the police:
"It was getting crucial where we hadn't been able to find him. And just as I was going back to my parent's house to call, a neighbor found him."