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If you suspect elder abuse, neglect, or exploitation, call
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About NCEA

The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), directed by the U.S. Administration on Aging, is committed to helping national, state, and local partners in the field be fully prepared to ensure that older Americans will live with dignity, integrity, independence, and without abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The NCEA is a resource for policy makers, social service and health care practitioners, the justice system, researchers, advocates, and families.

 
  • Elder Justice Mini-grants
              RFP Open
  • New charts describe adult
    protective services laws

On behalf of the NCEA, NCPEA is accepting applications for mini-grant funding to assist organizations in developing new, local multidisciplinary elder justice networks. The NCEA will award ten, $10,000 mini-grants. Applications are due September 22, 2008. Click here to view/download the application:
Elder_Justice_Community_RFP.doc

The ABA Commission on Law and Aging has produced a series of charts for the National Center on Elder Abuse that provide state-by-state information on adult protective services (APS) laws. To access these resources, visit the NCEA Analysis of State Adult Protective Services Laws.

  • Topics covered by these charts include:
  • Reporting requirements & mandatory reporters;
  • Comparison charts of categories in adult protective services laws;
  • Definitions of capacity to consent and caregiver;
  • Mandatory training;
  • Reporting and referrals to law enforcement;
  • Immunity for good faith reporting & prohibitions of retaliation against reporters; and
  • Types of abuse.
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