Introduction A significant proportion of adults in England and Wales report experiencing childhood trauma, which is often associated with poor health and negative social outcomes including a ...

Utah’s Adult Protective Services agency is substantiating an average of just 5% of all allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation it investigates each year — far lower than the national average.

The number of older people in Cuyahoga County is growing, which leaders say could be contributing to the rise in calls.

Derek Plumb is facing decades in prison after detectives say he abused his position as a state employee to try to gain the property deeds of three vulnerable women.

A former Michigan Adult Protective Services employee is facing multiple felonies after investigators say he tried to defraud some of the same elderly women he was tasked with protecting. (Feb. 2, 2026 ...

Derek Plumb, a former APS employee with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, is accused of embezzling more than $100,000 from a vulnerable adult and four counts of forging a document ...

My Neighbor Has a Hoarding Problem and I’m Freaking Out About MiceI don’t want to see them evicted, but is there anything I can do?

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, ...

Arizona seniors aged 70 and older face financial fraud losses nearly double those of any other age group, according to data from the Common Sense Institute. Advocates are urging the Arizona ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Orange County DSS received multiple reports about autistic and nonverbal woman’s case. Advocates sought information about her safety ...

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Guilford County leaders unanimously approved the creation of an adult protection multi-disciplinary team that will work to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect and ...

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 ...