MERRICK, Long Island (WABC) -- An 80-year-old woman who was reported missing in Canada was found at the LIRR station in Merrick.
Ticket agent Steve Capobianco says a passenger approached him Friday and said she had been trying to help the woman find an address, but that woman seemed disoriented as if she possibly had dementia.
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Capobianco stepped in to try to help.
Authorities quickly realized the woman had been reported missing in Canada.
It is not clear how she got to Long Island.
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She was taken to a hospital to get checked out and will be reunited with her family.
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