Promoting bill to combat elder abuse
Last year, over 16,000 adults were abused, and it's estimated that 73,000 adult abuse cases go unreported every year.
June 29, 2009
UP legislators are in Marquette Monday promoting a bill that would combat elder neglect, emotional, and physical abuse.
The bill would also focus on financial exploitation of the elderly.
It proposes tougher punishment for those committing offenses.
The legislators conducted an informal meeting at the Senior Center in Marquette today. Unfortunately, nobody attended the meeting, but with a 40 percent increase in elder abuse in Michigan, lawmakers say the issue is extremely important, and the the bill needs to be passed.
"Sometimes the people that gain these peoples trust are than taking their money, they abuse them in someway, and we just want to make sure that doesn't happen," says State Representative, Steve Lindberg.
SOURCE: WLUC TV6 - Marquette,Michigan,USA
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