named Isabel del Castillo Hortelano is 57 years old and has Alzheimer’s. His photo pours into every corner of Madrid, is constantly shared on social networks. A battalion of people is looking for him, but he doesn’t know. Maybe you don’t remember your address, maybe you walk tired, confused, confused: takes eleven days disappeared.
Family and investigators ask Maximum spread to aid its search and location. A an extremely risky disappearance that becomes disturbing, because he is a defenseless person. He’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s for two years, needs medication, and is addicted.
“She left home (in Navalcarnero, Madrid) at around 8:00 PM on Friday, August 19,” says her daughter, Yoanna. “I was coming from a trip to Greece that my aunt and dad had been going for a month and a half.” Perhaps disturbed by the trip, Isabel left the house, taking advantage of the fact that her husband was in the bathroom.. He went through the door. He didn’t say anything. They never saw him again.
Greek restaurant
“He was born in Madrid, but spent many years in Móstoles, where he moved with my grandparents,” says Yoanna. “In 2002 my family moved to Navalcarnero.” Before Alzheimer’s, Isabel and her husband ran several restaurants. “My family has devoted their entire lives to the hospitality industry. My father is Greek and had Greek food restaurants in Madrid.”
The first was opened in 1997 and “Though they were always on time by car during these 20-30 years, they traveled by bus 528 from Navalcarnero to Madrid, arriving in Príncipe Pío”. Navalcarnero, Móstoles and the center of Madrid may be places women want to go because of routine and habit.. “They say Alzheimer’s patients go back to where they disappeared because they remember old times more than recent times.”
End point: town square
His family, on the alert from the first moment, Thanks to the cameras of some institutions, he has been able to reconstruct some of Isabel’s steps since she left home on August 19th.. “The first one was recorded relatively close to the house, about 30 meters away, it’s a big street. exiting the roundabout of Municipal Park of Navalcarnero there are many bus stops in different directions. We know he took the street (Plaza de Segovia, Navalcarnero) that turned out at that roundabout.
The second recording was recorded in the same frame at 20:30. “The picture doesn’t help much, but It looks like he’s going out again, going back to get the address he came from.‘, retracing his steps, ‘walking down the same street, in the opposite direction, towards the same roundabout’.
“He managed to get on the bus, although it didn’t make sense for him to take it to towns, he could have made a mistake and got on it,” her daughter complains.
“We’re asking all establishments with security cameras to please review their records or hand them over to the Civil Guard, it could be the key to locating their whereabouts.”
They research, they think, and then they try to repeat Isabel’s steps when everything starts to go dark. “One option is to have taken a bus. That’s why we beat Madrid center”, says Yoanna. could be wrong, so we also wallpapered all the nearby towns.“.
Recognizes and remembers your name
Yoanna says Isabel, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago, has not engaged in any “responsible” activities “although not very advanced”. “We’re talking about the smallest thing, just like making a phone call.” He took medication to slow the progression. He didn’t have it on him, he had documents, he didn’t have a phone either. “He didn’t use his cell phone alone last year, we forwarded calls to him. He was always with someone, never went anywhere unaccompanied.”
He has not lost his identity. “He knows everyone, at least until the day he disappeared,” his daughter says. “In Greece, the same in his last days, he recognized everyone.” Alzheimer’s reduced its spatial and temporal orientation: “It was something else with places, addresses, phone numbers…”.
“He answers your name,” explains her daughter, “so If someone thinks they’ve seen him, get to know him, please call him, it’s important to turn his back.“.
“A typical gesture is biting her lower lip. She takes her hand to her lower lip and grabs it with her fingers,” she explains.
Isabel, who has a normal build, is 1.65 m tall. He has brown eyes and medium length, blond, gray hair. Walks normally, may be “strong but sick”, confused, tired. “A typical gesture for her is to bite her lower lip. The other is to hold her elbow with one hand and her lip with the other, and bite the lower part.”
Before his illness, he spoke excellent Greek. Alzheimer’s affected his expression. “When you talk to her, there are things that we take out of context,” her daughter says. “These are conversations that might not make much sense from the outside.Someone who listens to you and doesn’t know what’s happening to you might find it disconnected. There are words he can’t find, and then he wanders, wanders, to find it.”
Open, friendly, “she’s been more reserved lately”, Yoanna describes, more social, “talking to people she doesn’t know, giving her opinion, commenting”.
He was wearing it when he disappeared. black cycling shorts, a striped teea cartoon printed light brown bag, nail blue flip flops and pamela (I may have missed).
His family asks for help: “Please, if anyone got on a bus connected to Navalcarnero during that time period. If anyone saw him on the street, anyone with information… To the Civil Guard, the police, emergencies.”
They make a final objection, making a request, “They don’t usually serve Navalcarnero, but if a taxi were there on Friday the 19th, it would be important to know”. They don’t stop. They make calls, enter networks, do not leave the phone. Some scenes came from Móstoles: “she was not my mother”. They search tirelessly, they can’t stop doing it.