Keeping Alzheimer's patients safe can be tough task
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Mike Henley waits for his ride as his wife, Karen, tends to him after a doctor visit. (Nov. 6, 2007)
It was a frigid afternoon with snow still on the ground from a storm the previous day. Mary Williams was in the backyard of her Elmont home. She just went outside for a minute, but that's all it took for her husband Calvin, who has Alzheimer's, to slip away from the house.
Police didn't find him until the next day. He was caught trying to break into a silver Honda Accord - the same make, model...
