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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 194 

Designating June 15, 2017, as ‘‘World Elder Abuse Awareness Day’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 15, 2017 

Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. GRASSLEY, 

Mr. CASEY, Mr. COTTON, Mr. TILLIS, Mrs. MCCASKILL, and Mrs. 

FISCHER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

AUGUST 1, 2017 

Committee discharged; considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Designating June 15, 2017, as ‘‘World Elder Abuse 

Awareness Day’’. 

Whereas the Federal Government estimates that more than 

1 in 10 persons over the age of 60 are victims of elder 

abuse each year; 

Whereas abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults in 

the United States goes unidentified and unreported due 

to an inability to report or a fear of reporting; 

Whereas only 1 in 14 cases of financial abuse of older adults 

is reported; 

Whereas at least $2,900,000,000 is taken from older adults 

each year due to financial abuse and exploitation; 


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Whereas elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation have no 

boundaries and cross all racial, social, class, gender, and 

geographic lines; 

Whereas older adults who are abused are 3 times more likely 

to die earlier than older adults of the same age who are 

not abused; 

Whereas 1⁄2 of all older adults with dementia will experience 

abuse; 

Whereas providing unwanted medical treatment can be a 

form of elder abuse and exploitation; 

Whereas public awareness has the potential to increase the 

identification and reporting of elder abuse by the public, 

professionals, and victims, and can act as a catalyst to 

promote issue-based education and long-term prevention; 

Whereas private individuals and public agencies must work 

together on the Federal, State, and local levels to combat 

increasing occurrences of abuse, neglect, exploitation 

crime, and violence against vulnerable older adults and 

vulnerable adults, particularly in light of limited resources for vital protective services; and 

Whereas 2017 is the 12th anniversary of World Elder Abuse 

Awareness Day: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) designates June 15, 2017, as ‘‘World Elder 

3 Abuse Awareness Day’’; 

4 (2) recognizes judges, lawyers, adult protective 

5 services professionals, law enforcement officers, long6 term care ombudsmen, social workers, health care 

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1 tims, and other professionals and agencies for the 

2 efforts to advance awareness of elder abuse; and 

3 (3) encourages members of the public and pro4 fessionals who work with older adults to act as cata5 lysts to promote awareness and long-term prevention 

6 of elder abuse by reaching out to local adult protec7 tive services agencies, long-term care ombudsman 

8 programs, and the National Center on Elder Abuse, 

9 and by learning to recognize, detect, report, and re10 spond to elder abuse. 

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