“Kirk Moody is still searching for his wife, Nancy Paulikas, who went missing in Los Angeles in 2016. Her disappearance helped inspire a new program there to safeguard people with dementia or cognitive conditions that make them prone to wander. (Rob Kuznia) In October 2016, a 55-year-old retired software engineer with early-onset Alzheimer’s wandered out of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as her husband used the restroom. Nancy Paulikas hasn’t been seen since. Kirk Moody still spends time nearly every day looking for her. ‘There hasn’t been a single trace,’ he says.”
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