UPDATE:

According to our news partners at The Gazette, the 78-year-old man has been found safe.

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Deputies are searching for an elderly man who did not return home Monday evening. The man suffers from early-onset dementia.

He is 78-year-old Dennis Jennings. He is described as a white male standing 5-foot-10 and weighing 185 pounds. He has black eyes and gray hair. He was last seen wearing an American Legion outfit with a white shirt, black pants, blue jacket and black high-gloss shoes.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office say he was driving from the 10000 block of Otero Avenue near Old Ranch Road and Voyager Parkway to an American Legion meeting at 3613 Jeanine Drive near N. Academy Boulevard and Austin Bluffs Parkway around 5 p.m.

Jennings' car is a white 2012 Ford F-350 pickup truck. It has a Colorado plate number SQM-856.

Deputies say he never showed up to the meeting and has not returned home.

If anyone has information on where he may be, call deputy Brian Morse at 719-390-5555.