BY KATY BOLGER
DAILY NEWS WRITER
August 6th 2009
Her son's verbal and emotional abuse was too much for 84-year-old Helen M.
Mary's son wanted to dump her in a "depressing, terrible" place to live. He wouldn't listen to what Mary wanted. Fortunately, she found shelter from the abuse.
And "Herbie" - not his real name - , 64, incapacitated and unable to work since a serious car accident at 23, had his life savings drained by a younger wife. He, too, found shelter from the abuse.
Calling elder abuse "the silent epidemic among us," state Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx-Westchester) this week released a report citing more than 34,000 cases of abuse in New York State in 2008.
At the same time, Klein called on the Assembly to pass his elder abuse tracking and reporting bill, which passed the Senate 56 to 0 in July.
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