UPDATE: Salvador Padilla has returned home safe, police said Tuesday.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Police are asking for the publics help to locate a 69-year-old man from Brighton Heights who was reported missing from a hospital in Brooklyn.

A Silver Alert has been issued for the man, who suffers from dementia and may be in need of medical attention, according to the citys Notify NYC alert system.

Salvador Padilla of Brighton Avenue was last seen on Monday at about 7 p.m. inside Maimonides Medical Center at 4802 10th Ave. in Brooklyn, according to a statement from the NYPDs Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.

Police described Padilla as weighing about 170 pounds.

He is Hispanic, has brown eyes, salt-and-pepper hair, a gray mustache, and is missing his top front teeth.

He was seen wearing a gray sweater, blue jeans, a blue baseball cap and black sneakers.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPDs Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at http://WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @ NYPDTips.

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