Sec. 301. SENSE OF THE SENATE

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## SEC. 301 SENSE OF THE SENATE ###

(a)Findings The Senate finds the following: ####

(1)The vast majority of cases of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults in the United States go unidentified and unreported. ####

(2)Not less than $2,900,000,000 is taken from older adults each year due to financial abuse and exploitation. ####

(3)Elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation have no boundaries and cross all racial, social, class, gender, and geographic lines. ####

(4)Older adults who are abused are 3 times more likely to die earlier than older adults of the same age who are not abused. ####

(5)Up to half of all older adults with dementia will experience abuse. ###

(b)Sense of the Senate It is the sense of the Senate that— ####

(1)elder abuse involves the exploitation of potentially vulnerable individuals with devastating physical, mental, emotional, and financial consequences to the victims and their loved ones; ####

(2)to combat this affront to America’s older adults, we must do everything possible to both support victims of elder abuse and prevent the abuse from occurring in the first place; and ####

(3)the Senate supports a multipronged approach to prevent elder abuse and exploitation, protect the victims of elder abuse and exploitation from further harm, and bring the perpetrators of such crimes to justice.