Woman charged over nursing home kidnapping

A woman has been charged with kidnapping an elderly woman with dementia who was taken from her Melbourne nursing home.

Dimitra Pavlopoulou, 97, was wheeled out of her Inverness Street, Clarinda, nursing home about 12 pm Saturday and put in a car, and her wheelchair left behind.

Police found Ms Pavlopoulou at a Cheltenham address about 9.30pm on Saturday, and a 51-year-old woman is due to face Melbourne Magistrates Court on Sunday charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.