A Christchurch dementia patient is living in a new care facility after she took a rest-home staffer’s unlocked car and drove it to Ashburton. The elderly woman took the vehicle from the The Oaks Rest Home in Riccarton earlier this month and drove south for more than an hour before she was stopped. New Zealand Aged Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace said the woman was living in the general rest home at the time of the incident, but had since been moved to a secure facility in Wellington.
