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Radnor Township Police Searching For Elderly Woman With Dementia

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Radnor Township Polices says an elderly woman who went missing late Thursday morning has been found.

The Westtown-East Goshen Police Department located 79-year-old Sandra Gilbert of Wayne.

According to police she is in good health and has been reunited with her family.

Thursday afternoon, police were asking for the public's help in locating Gilbert, who is suffering from the early stages of dementia.

Police said Gilbert left her residence at 10 a.m. Thursday, driving a 2004 Silver Volvo Sedan, with the Pennsylvania registration FWS-5639.

Gilbert's family received a phone call from her at 11 a.m. and she stated that she was at the Northbrook Market Place in Unionville, according to police. She used the market's landline to make the call.

But there had been no word from Gilbert since that phone call and she did not take her cell phone with her when she left the residence, police said.

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