An 83-year-old man with dementia lost contact with his family as wildfires devastated Maui, but an Orange County couple on vacation came to his rescue.
An elderly man with dementia lost contact with his family as wildfires devastated Maui, but an Orange County couple on vacation came to his rescue.A Dana Point couple are being called Good Samaritans for spending several days caring for an elderly man with dementia as a wildfire ripped across Maui last week, leaving much of the island without power, phone or internet services.
"For three days, Dom was kind of our focus," Nancy Elliott said. "We wanted to make sure he was taken care of... He's in the beginning stages of dementia." "All communication was cut," said Vickie Avetisian, Landolfi's daughter who lives on Kauai. "We couldn't get through to anybody. Couldn't get through to hospitals or anything... I started to panic."
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