Most who disappear are people who have dementia, suffer from mental illness or want to take their lives.

- The largest group of missing persons are dementia. According to international research, 60 percent of them have episodes when they are lost, says university lecturer Rebecca Stenberg, who is one of the report's authors.

costly

- Investigation of missing persons is more extensive and costly for the police than politicians and the general public understand. For the lost themselves and their loved ones, it means a great deal of suffering. It is therefore strange that there is largely no Swedish research on missing persons.

According to Rebecca Stenberg, disappearances are so common in elderly care that the staff there look until they think it is no longer possible. Then first contact the police. And many people with dementia have such good physics that they have then come a long way.

- If they are not found, 50 percent will not survive the first 24 hours.

Learn more about what can be done about this in the clip above.

Training

The report also shows that education within the voluntary organizations that have emerged would be good.

- A threshold into this business. That they know a little bit about what it is about. Then many people want to learn more and you may need to work more together.

Furthermore, the researchers believe that increased knowledge about how different groups behave in disappearance and what can be done to prevent the disappearance from the beginning is desirable. Proposals for technology development, such as map support and positioning, are also given in the research report.

There is room for improvement in police training as well, according to the researchers. Learn more about it in the video.