“As the world population of older people grows, so does the problem of elder abuse,” wrote Kathy Greenlee, head of the Administration for Community Living (ACL), in a blog post on the ACL website.
Greenlee cited a 2010 American Journal of Public Healthreport which found that one in 10 Americans over the age of 60 had experienced some form of abuse — emotional, physical, or sexual — or neglect in the previous year.
WEAAD was launched in 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization.
