Claim: The woman in the photograph has dementia and is lost with her dog and needs to be identified.
Fact-check: Posts about a lost woman with dementia are a hoax - Full Fact
Verdict: this is a hoax. the same image has been posted across multiple community pages around the world, and has been identified as a hoax by a canadian search and rescue team.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Evie Townend
Date published: 2023-02-23T00:00:00