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Reportable Types of Abuse - Adult Protective Services

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  • Physical Abuse
    Physical abuse of the elderly and dependent adults includes actual bodily injury due to force, as well as deprivation of food and/or water.

  • What Is Financial Abuse?
    Financial abuse against the elderly is reportable.

  • Self Neglect
    Self neglect in the case of an elderly individual is also reportable as an instance of "abuse."

  • Abduction
    The removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state of any elder or dependent adult who does not have the capacity to consent to removal.

  • Sexual Abuse
    The following activities are reportable as sexual abuse.

  • Abandonment
    The desertion or willful forsaking of an elder or dependent adult by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances in which a reasonable person would continue to provide care and custody.

  • Isolation