{"id":13401,"date":"2019-06-12T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:47:41","slug":"reports-find-health-workers-still-arent-alerting-police-regarding-likely-elder-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13401","title":{"rendered":"Reports Find Health Workers Still Aren&#8217;t Alerting Police Regarding Likely Elder Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ina Jaffe for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>It can be hard to quantify the problem of elder abuse. Experts believe that many cases go unreported. And Wednesday morning, their belief was confirmed by two new government studies.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted and published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/\">Office of Inspector General<\/a> of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, finds that in many cases of abuse or neglect severe enough to require medical attention, the incidents have not been reported to enforcement agencies, though that&#8217;s required by law.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/06\/12\/731820729\/reports-find-health-workers-still-arent-alerting-police-regarding-likely-elder-a?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73600879&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9JwaT_W2fcFI4YxgQiYHrpaYmy9oqoeTnqYL7z1f_U6plz_FPzeeFaC4saochaFV9EPFr77BIpPoYJh-9cv6O9AONRBQ&amp;_hsmi=73600879\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ina Jaffe for NPR) It can be hard to quantify the problem of elder abuse. Experts believe that many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13402,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions\/13402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}