Preventing elder abuse
By Staff reports
Augusta Gazette
Tue Mar 18, 2008, 09:39 AM CDT
Augusta, Kan. - Every year an estimated 2.1 million older Americans are victims of physical, psychological, or other forms of abuse and neglect.
Butler County’s Prevention of Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation (PEANE) Committee is providing a two-day seminar titled “Identifying, Prosecuting, and Preventing Elder Financial Abuse” March 27-28.
The seminar will be held in Augusta at the First United Methodist Church, 2420 N. Ohio.For more information and to reserve your seat contact Melody Gault at the Butler County Department on Aging 775-0500 or 1-800-279-3655
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SOURCE: augustagazette
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