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 By People on 12/12/2018 “… McKenzie Adams was a 9-year-old fourth-grader with a “bubbly, fun-loving personality” who loved to tell stories and wanted to be a scientist when she grew up. But her life was cut short on Dec. 3 when she hanged herself in her grandmother’s home in Linden, Alabama, after enduring months of bulling,…

By Kare 11 on 12/11/2018 “… Abuse knows no age limits. Children can suffer both physical and emotional abuse at the hands of those who are supposed to care for them, but so do the elderly. On Tuesday in The Sandwich Generation, Jean Peters of Elder Voice Family Advocates and Erin Parrish from AARP visited KARE 11 News at 11 to…

By The Washington Post 12/09/2018 “… Scams. Shady caregivers. Poor care. Elder mistreatment has many faces — from financial exploitation to physical and emotional abuse. About 10 percent of those 60 and older are reportedly affected by it in the United States. …” Read the entire article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/elder-abuse-happens-more-than-you-think-how-to-spot-the-signs/2018/12/07/0f0bf09e-f89b-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html?utm_term=.63e41d6e9c98

By Seattle Weekly on 12/12/2018 “… As Seattle’s senior population rises, elder abuse is increasingly becoming an issue on city officials and caretakers’ radars. Advocates throughout the nation are calling on states to increase public awareness of elder abuse and for courts to respond to the epidemic. …” Read the entire article: https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/seattle-takes-on-elder-abuse-as-reported-cases-rise/

By News Day on 12/12/2018 “… ZWLA legal officer, Clara Chikohora, said although the majority of domestic violence and sexual abuse victims were women, men were also affected, but the majority suffered in silence. “We are saying as women let us not shun men who go through abuse,” Chikohora said at a Women Coalition of Zimbabwe…

By Full Fact on 12/06/2018 “… We’ve been asked by a reader to look into what percentage of domestic abuse victims are male. Males made up 31%, or one in every three, of those aged between 16 and 74 who reported having been the victims of domestic abuse since they were 16. That’s according to a…

By Galion Inquirer on 12/12/2018 “… Where are the male voices? Why aren’t men involved in preventing domestic violence? Will men listen to men? “Now, when it comes to men and male culture, the goal is to get men who are not abusive to challenge men who are,” proclaimed Jackson Katz. He continued the TED Talk: “We…

By Patch on 12/04/2018 “… Despite being one of the most popular states for retirees, Florida ranked only 22nd in a new study of the states that fight hardest for elder protection. Personal finance website WalletHub examined 14 key areas in ranking the 50 states and the District of Columbia. …” Read the entire article: https://patch.com/florida/miami/florida-ranks-only-so-so-elder-protection-study

By Crains New York Business on 12/03/2018 “… The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Justice, part of the RiverSpring Health’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale, is working on new ways to identify seniors who are victims of financial, physical or emotional abuse or neglect. …” Read the entire article: https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/local-justice-center-tackles-elder-abuse

By The Journal on 11/24/2018 “… Amen is a support service for male victims of domestic abuse – in heterosexual and same-sex couples. They offer counselling services, outreach programmes, and plan to roll out a piloted group support programme that began in Navan across the country next year. She says that statistics indicate that just 5% of…