NORWICH – Police were called out to find a missing woman suffering from dementia who had wandered from her home Wednesday.

The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of an 80-year-old female with dementia who had walked away from her home on Warner Road in the Town of Norwich. They dispatched their K-9 unit to the area and conducted an immediate cursory search to no avail. The woman had been last seen at around 1 p.m.

The New York State Forest Rangers and the New York State Police helicopter, out of Albany, were called in to assist in searching the densely-wooded areas around the home. With aid from a member of the Norwich Fire Department, the aerial search and rescue unit surveyed the area. The aerial crew located the woman approximately half a mile from her home and guided the Chenango County Search and Rescue Team to the victim.