By Thursday afternoon, millions of people had read or heard reports of an elderly bus monitor in suburban Rochester who was ruthlessly bullied by a group of middle-school boys.The incident prompted an outpouring of support for the 68-year-old woman and a swift response from authorities. It was a case of highly reported elder abuse.
But most elder abuse cases don’t receive so much attention. In fact, thousands of cases of elder abuse in upstate New York don’t get any.
According to a study by Lifespan of Greater Rochester Inc., approximately 260,000 seniors statewide are abused annually, and only 1 in 24 cases gets reported to authorities. Abuse includes financial exploitation and physical and emotional abuse or neglect.
According to estimates, there were approximately 3,500 cases of elder abuse in Chemung (1,530), Schuyler (267) and Steuben (1,710) counties in 2010. The counties had a total senior population of approximately 45,000 in 2010.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the state’s elder abuse situation is unacceptable, and he’s pushing for comprehensive legislation to address the issue.
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I hope Senator Schumer looks into the wrongdoing in the guardianship conservatorship system under color of law. Anyone who tries to notify of the wrongdoing, the harm, the fraud, well they're sent away to complaint to the conservstor, complain to the guardian well they're the ones who are the guilty parties - hello, is anyone listening?
Follow the $, it's worth the effort there are many of us who have the roadmap to the hidden gold, how the scam works all by design.
Contact NASGA folks they are volunteers on call 7 days a week ready willing and able to assist.
We're putting a lot of hope into Schumer. He has been very outspoken and I hope he gets it done!
Thank you, Senator Schumer.
I just submitted the following to Sen. Schumer via his contact form at https://www.schumer.senate.gov/Contact/contact_chuck.cfm
I read in the Corning Leader (6/21/2012) that Sen. Schumer is pushing for legislation to fight elder abuse, with an emphasis on reporting.
What concerns me is that no legislation, including the Elder Justice Act and the Elder Abuse Victims Act, does anything that effectively and reliably prevents crimes like that which is documented by the 3-minute video which appears at http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8486577. This video was broadcast by ABC News as part of a report that begins at http://abcnews.go.com/2020/mary-ellens-mansion-elder-abuse/story?id=8976473.
Yet such crimes could be effectively and reliably prevented by means of a practical intervention strategy that is based upon recommendations published by the American Medical Association and other recognized authorities.
This intervention strategy needs to be established by law. With this need in mind, I am asking here for an e-mail address that I can use to send Sen. Schumer what he needs to know about this stategy, including links to many of the published reports on which it is based.
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I hope Senator Schumer replaced Herb Kohl as Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging!
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