Hidden violence: Elder abuse was already hard to track – then a pandemic made it more difficult
By WUFT, 04/24/2023
“…Florida’s senior population, or people over 65, is greater than 4.5 million. Even as specialists and advocates warned that elder abuse rates would increase during the pandemic, the number of cases reported to help lines and law enforcement remained steady or declined – sometimes hitting zero in some counties…”
Read the entire article: https://www.wuft.org/news/2023/04/24/hidden-violence-elder-abuse-was-already-hard-to-track-then-a-pandemic-made-it-harder/