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  2. Maine Department of Health and Human Services - Wikipedia

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    The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is the health department of Maine headquartered in Augusta, Maine, that provides public assistance, child and family welfare services, and oversees health policy and management. [1] It is the largest executive branch department in Maine, employing over 3,000 people. [1]

  3. Adult Protective Services - Wikipedia

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    Forms of abuse include physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse as well as financial exploitation. [3] "Neglect" can be perpetrated by any caregiver who has accepted the responsibility of assisting an older person or an adult with disabilities. [3] Most states include self-neglect in their definitions of those needing adult protective ...

  4. Augusta Mental Health Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Maine Insane Hospital, later the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI), was a psychiatric hospital in Augusta, Maine.It was the principal facility for the care and treatment of Maine's mentally ill from 1840 to 2004, and its surviving buildings represent the oldest surviving complex of mental care facilities in the United States.

  5. Older Americans Act - Wikipedia

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    Older Americans Act of 1965: Long title: To provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the ...

  6. Mandatory reporting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nationwide, there was a 2348% increase in hotline calls from 150,000 in 1963 to 3.3 million in 2009. [7] In 2011, there were 3.4 million calls. [8] From 1992 to 2009 in the US, substantiated cases of sexual abuse declined 62%, physical abuse decreased 56% and neglect 10%.

  7. Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017 - Wikipedia

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    On October 18. 2017, President Trump signed into law the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017 (P.L. 115–70 [1]), identifying the need for data on elder abuse. An elder abuse case has many stages from the incident through investigation (by adult protective services or law enforcement), prosecution, and trauma recovery.

  8. Elder abuse - Wikipedia

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    Elder abuse (also called elder mistreatment, senior abuse, abuse in later life, abuse of older adults, abuse of older women, and abuse of older men) is a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person. [1]

  9. Riverview Psychiatric Center - Wikipedia

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    Augusta Mayor William Stokes also expressed concern over Augusta's bearing an unfair burden of mental health patients. [ 6 ] The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on October 2, 2013, that Riverview's Medicare Provider Agreement would be terminated, ending the roughly $20 million in federal funds the center receives a ...