If yours is one of the 12 states that is using
Silver Alerts to find missing senior citizens, how it is working? If your state has not adopted the program, why not?
As our population ages and as we live longer, no doubt we will see more cases of old folks wandering off. Check with the missing person's division at your police department and see how often they are called about elderly people.
States have varying requirements for what it takes to get listed as the subject of a Silver Alert.
For example, Texas requires [PDF] that:
- The missing person is 65 years old or older
- The person has a primary residence in Texas
- There is a written diagnosis that the missing person has a mental condition, and the disappearance must pose a credible threat to the person's health and safety
- A missing persons report is filed within 72 hours of the disappearance
- There is sufficient information for the publ
Silver Alerts have been issued for 19 people in Florida, according to
The New York Times, and all of them have been found.
