ELDER ABUSE POCKET REFERENCE

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Excerpt 2013 Publication
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/ElderAbusePDoc.pdf

Elder Abuse Pocket Reference
This new guide contains an overview of elder abuse in California, as well as relevant legal and medical information. The pocket reference was designed for judicial officers, yet contains valuable self-help data. The guide can be accessed at
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/ElderAbusePDoc.pdf or email nbynews@juno.com for the PDF to be emailed.
Some of the facts presented in the overview are as follows:
Demographics
- California currently has more than 4.2 million people age 65 and older, 11.4% of the state’s population and the largest number of elders of any state in the country.
- The number of Californians ages 65 and older is increasing; elders who are more than 80 years old represent the fastest-growing segment of the population.
- In 2020, when the population of Californians age 65 and older increases to more than 6.1 million (15% of the total population), nearly one million of those elders will be at least 85 years old.
- By 2040, there will be nearly 9.7 million California elders 65 years old and older (20% of the population).
- Approximately 13% of people age 65 and older, and nearly half of people 85 and older, have Alzheimer’s disease.
Elder Abuse
- The Department of Justice estimates that 1 in 20 elders is a victim of neglect or physical, psychological, or financial abuse.
- Most abuse occurs in elders’ homes or other domestic settings.
- Adult Protective Services (APS) agencies in CA received more than (10,000 reports of elder and dependent adult abuse in 2006-07.
- For every reported case of elder abuse, it is estimated that five cases are never reported.