{"id":943823,"date":"2026-10-23T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:38:09","slug":"vpd-searches-for-missing-59-year-old-man-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943823\/","title":{"rendered":"VPD searches for missing 59-year-old man with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVPD searches for missing 59-year-old man with dementia\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-61364 alignleft\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Maung-photo-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"  data- data-orig-\/><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver \u2013 The Vancouver Police Department is requesting public assistance to locate a 59-year-old man with dementia, who speaks limited English.<\/p>\n<p>Maung Maung left his care home near Heather Street and West 57th Avenue on Wednesday, October 21, around 9:50 a.m. He may be confused and have trouble remembering how to get home.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Maung is described as a 59-year-old Asian man, five feet nine inches tall, with a medium build and black\/greying short hair. He was last seen wearing a grey button-up shirt, black pants, and white runners.\u00a0He has been known to travel long distances on foot or by transit.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sees Mr. Maung is asked to call 911 and stay with him until first responders arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VPD searches for missing 59-year-old man with dementia Vancouver \u2013 The Vancouver Police Department is requesting public assistance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-943823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}