An 83-year-old woman was located by police about an hour after relatives reported her missing from her Valley Stream home.

Police said relatives of the woman, whose identity was not released, reported she had wandered away from her home on Rockaway Turnpike at about 7 a.m.

Police immediately notified patrol units and dispatched a helicopter to search the neighborhood for her.

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