RICHMOND, Va. — A new online portal is making it easier to report allegations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elderly and incapacitated adults. The number of reports to Adult Protective Services ...

ELYRIA, Ohio — Lorain County Adult Protective Services is grappling with a dramatic rise in elder abuse cases, marked by increasingly complex and severe incidents of neglect, abuse and financial ...

Editor's note: this story contains descriptions of alleged child abuse. ASHEVILLE - Four teenagers who attended two Asheville-area residential treatment centers filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 31, ...

Rachel Coates of the Department of Human Services (screenshot via Arlington County) The county government’s Adult Protective Services office is attempting to keep up with a surge in reports of abuse, ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – Abuse and exploitation of local senior citizens is rampant in Bexar County. Last year, Adult Protective Services confirmed almost 5,400 cases of elder abuse or neglect in the ...

Kansas' system for reporting abuse, neglect and exploitation is fragmented, an audit says, leading to uncertainty about the completeness of perpetrator registries. Different state agencies investigate ...

Every state has mandatory reporting laws that require certain professionals like doctors or teachers to report child abuse and neglect. But in Florida, every adult is a mandated reporter. Florida law ...