Elderly couple found after fleeing aged-care facility because they hate it: ‘They just wanted to be home together’

An elderly couple missing from an aged-care facility have been found as it emerges the pair fled the complex because they did not like being in a ‘home’. 

Colin, 89, and Claudette Geraghty, 83, left the Ryman Nellie Melba Retirement Village in Wheelers Hill, south-east Melbourne, at about 11.15 am on Saturday.

The pair visited The Glen Shopping Centre, on Springvale Road, bought their daily medication and were last seen leaving at about midday in their white 2015 Mazda 2.

The alarm was raised when their neighbour Sharon Jeikishore checked on them later that afternoon and received no answer.

Their daughter Linda McKelvie was also

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