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prima:Elder abuse: a monumental challenge for the Department of the Family

With a growing aging population, in 2023, elder abuse complaints outnumbered child abuse complaints for the first time in history. The agency is not ready for the new, but long-announced scenario

February 26, 2024 - 3:17 PM

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From 2016 to 2023, 75,250 elder abuse complaints were filed, which is a record number. (El Nuevo Día)

The report, which reached the Department of the Family (DF) over the phone, described a frighteningly common situation in this 21st-century aging Puerto Rico: an older adult living alone, in subhuman conditions.

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