The Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public’s help to locate a missing 69-year-old woman.

According to detectives, Maria Alves was last seen around 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, in the 4900 block of Northeast Second Terrace in Deerfield Beach. Alves is about 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs about 160 pounds. She has blonde hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a green tie dyed shirt and black shorts.

According to her family, Alves suffers from dementia.

Anyone with information on Alves’s whereabouts should contact BSO Detective Chris Blankenship at 954-321-4268 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-HELP (4357).