PASADENA (CBS) — Police are asking for the public’s help in locating an Alzheimer’s patient who went missing in Pasadena Monday.

Ofelia Zapata walked away from a clinic in the 900 block of South Fair Oaks Avenue around 2:30 p.m.

Police say Zapata lives in Los Angeles and would not be able to find her way home.

Anyone with information about Zapata’s whereabouts is urged to call the Pasadena Police Department at (626) 744-4241.

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