http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3830/is_1_57/ai_n24269410/
"....incidents of elopement occur in nursing homes more frequently than we wish to imagine. Ten percent of all lawsuits involving nursing homes deal with elopement. Seventy percent of these lawsuits involve the death of a resident, and in 80% of cases the resident experienced prior incidences of elopement or attempted elopements."