Days after he left a nursing home , radio icon Casey Kasem was the subject of a welfare check at a residence in Washington state , officials said Thursday . Kitsap County sheriff 's deputies went to an address provided by California Adult Protective Services , Scott Wilson , a spokesman for the sheriff 's office , told CNN . Authorities on Tuesday afternoon found Casey Kasem and his wife , Jean , visiting longtime friends at the home . The couple was staying there on vacation , Wilson said . After staying 40 minutes and determining that Kasem was alert , not in distress and was receiving appropriate care , the deputies left . Kitsap County authorities would not release the address where they found Kasem , citing privacy reasons . The county is just west of Seattle . `` We are grateful to local authorities for finding my Dad . We are one step closer to bringing him home , '' daughter Kerri Kasem said in a statement Wednesday night . The family still has `` grave concerns about his medical care , '' the daughter 's representative said in the statement . `` The Kasem family will do everything in their power to bring their father home , '' Danny Deraney said . Family members , judge concerned . New guardianship . Kasem , 82 , is suffering from Lewy body disease -- a common cause of dementia , a spokesman for his daughter told CNN on Tuesday . On Monday , a judge named Kerri Kasem the temporary conservator until a June 20 hearing . But she had n't been able to take on the responsibility without knowing where he was . Kerri Kasem has said she feared her father may have been taken out of the country . Kerri and her sister , Julie Kasem , told CNN they last visited their father a week ago in the California nursing home where he was staying . When the daughters ' attorney , Troy Martin , called the day after the visit to check up on Kasem , he was told by the nursing home that he had been removed overnight , Martin told CNN . When asked whether there had been any wrongdoing in the Washington state visit , Wilson said : `` They 're free adults . They can travel where they want . '' Daughters vs. wife . Julie Kasem and her husband , Dr. Jamil Aboulhosn , filed an earlier conservatorship petition claiming the retired radio host `` has been isolated from his daughters , friends and other family '' by his wife . `` We tried everything to get her to let us see him when she stopped bringing him over to the house , '' Kerri Kasem told CNN in December . `` She had an assistant bring him over to the house so we could see him every weekend . She stopped . My sister went there , knocked on the door , and she was escorted off the property . '' But the wife gave a very different take on the ordeal last November . `` These children single-handedly and irreparably shattered the lives of their father , his wife and youngest daughter , the calm of their home and their neighborhood by engaging in uncalled for public demonstrations and personal attacks in the media , '' she said in court papers , according to CNN affiliate KCBS . `` They are doing so with a professionally orchestrated media and legal campaign that has disgraced their father and vilified their stepmother . '' Last year , a judge ruled that Kasem was being well cared for by his wife . The judge denied a request by Kasem 's children that a temporary conservator be appointed . Attempts to contact Jean Kasem 's attorney this week have been unsuccessful . Jean Kasem , 60 this year , was an actress with roles in `` Ghostbusters '' and `` Cheers . '' Decades of fame . Casey Kasem , who hosted radio music countdown shows `` American Top 40 '' and `` Casey 's Top 40 '' for decades , retired in 2009 . Besides the famed countdown shows , Kasem was also the voice of Shaggy in the cartoon `` Scooby-Doo '' and an announcer for NBC . He was a popular DJ and occasional actor before `` American Top 40 '' began in 1970 . His case has drawn attention to Lewy body dementia -- the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer 's , according to the Mayo Clinic . The condition can be hard to diagnose because Parkinson 's and Alzheimer 's cause similar symptoms , according to the National Institutes of Health . All-time great DJs .
Couple free to go where they want , sheriff 's official says . Washington deputies find Kasem in a home . Kasem , 82 , is suffering from Lewy body disease . He was arrested for possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.