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Police searching for missing 81-year-old with dementia

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Horace is seen in this photo released by Toronto police. (Toronto Police Service handout)

Police are asking the public for help locating a missing elderly person with dementia who was last seen in North York on Sunday morning.

Police say 81-year-old Horace was last seen walking southbound on Islington Avenue, south of Vanhill Avenue, at around 10:45 a.m.

Horace has been described as approximately four-foot-five and about 160 pounds with black and white braided hair down to their back, police said in a news release posted online.

Horace was last seen wearing a yellow toque with a black ring around the bottom, blue jeans, a blue denim jacket, green flannel shirts, and blue sneakers, police said.

Horace, who has been diagnosed with dementia, is also known as “Sunling.”

A command will be set up, police told CP24 on Monday.