Police: Missing elderly woman left nursing home with unknown man

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Police are searching for an elderly woman who disappeared from a Lincoln Square neighborhood nursing home Friday morning with an unidentified man.

Lidia Constantinesco, 79, went missing about 9 a.m. Friday from Allshore Nursing Home at 2840 W. Foster Ave., where she is a resident, according to a alert from Belmont Area detectives.

Nursing staff members law saw her leaving the facility with a white, 60- to 70-year-old man that she told them was her brother, according to the alert. However, staff members later learned that Constantinesco does not have a brother, the alert said.

She also takes medication for diabetes and may suffer from a form of dementia, the release said.

Constantinesco is described as a 4-foot-9, 129-pound white woman with brown hair, brown eyes and a light complexion, according to the alert.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact Belmont Area detectives or Det. J. King at any of the following phone numbers: (312) 744-8200, (312) 744-8266 or (312) 744-8261.