Today Missing Persons Week wraps up for another year, after seven days of campaigning by state and federal police to promote missing persons cases.

Every year in New South Wales almost 11,000 people are reported missing and almost 10% of those have a dementia-related illness.

That was the focus for this year’s campaign, but it’s not usually the case.

As our population ages, there are more dementia-related missing persons cases than ever.

But they’re also among the most under-reported in Australia’s media.

2SER’s Britta Jorgensen reports.