The Clay County Elder Abuse training team will provide training to law enforcement officers Tuesday and Wednesday at the Courtyard by Marriott in Moorhead. The Clay County attorney's office received a ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - The La Crosse Police Department is partnering with La Crosse County to provide elder abuse investigation training. All law enforcement staff at the La Crosse Police Department ...

Coordinated Community Response elder abuse seminar. Event held to help train those in the field. Volunteer guardians get 'thanks' in unrelated next day event. More than 80 professionals attended a ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- The La Crosse Police Department is partnering with La Crosse County to provide elder abuse investigation training to all law enforcement staff at the department. "There's often a ...

Elder abuse is any action — or lack of appropriate action — occurring in a relationship where there is an expectation of trust that causes harm or distress to an older person, according to the World ...

The number of senior citizens is growing rapidly; individuals aged 65 and older increased from 39.6 million in 2009 to 54.1 million in 2019 (a 36% increase) and is projected to reach 94.7 million by ...

Violence against the elderly was already hard to track. Then the pandemic made it harder. Amy Thomas wasn’t new to social work. She had been helping vulnerable children and adults for more than 20 ...

As of July 2022, there were more than 15,300 certified nursing homes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And while pre-pandemic studies estimate ...

A new law enforcement program will train officers and prosecutors to identify and investigate allegations of abuse, neglect or misconduct, increasing the scrutiny of Michigan’s nursing homes. And ...

The U.S. is growing older. Experts predict that seniors (people ages 65 and over) will make up 23% of the country by 2050, up from 16.5% now. As the aging population grows, more families of elderly ...

Amy Thomas wasn’t new to social work. She had been helping vulnerable children and adults for more than 20 years when she started working at Elder Options, a Gainesville-based nonprofit designated by ...