Is It True?
Adult Protective Services only assists adults 18-59 years of age.
What is false? Adult Protective Services works with adults over the age of 60 years of age.
When a person uses your money for their own benefit, without your permission.
What is financial exploitation?
A 72 year old adult, living alone in an apartment unable to care for themselves.
What is Adult Protective Services?
APS
What is Adult Protective Services?
Adults must do what their family or APS caseworker tells them to do.
What is false? Adults have the right to self-determination and are allowed to make decisions others do not agree with.
The intentional use of physical force that results in injury.
What is physical abuse?
An adult residing in a long term care facility that does not want to reside there.
What is the Office of the State Long Term Care Ombudsman?
ODJFS
What is Ohio Department of Job and Family Services? (The agency who oversees the APS program)
The role of Adult Protective Services is to help adults live as safely and independent as possible.
What is true?
The desertion of an older adult by a caretaker without making arrangements for their care.
What is abandonment?
An 65 year old adult who resides their own home and is being criminally exploited.
What is Law Enforcement and APS?
CDJFS
What is the County Department of Job and Family Services? (The agency that operates the program at the local level)
Adult protective service clients have no right to confidentiality.
What is false?
What is self-neglect?
An adult being mistreated by staff while residing in a nursing home.
What is the Ohio Department of Health?
AAA
What is Area Agency on Aging?
Mandated reporters for suspected elder abuse include bank employees, attorneys, physicians and nurses.
What is true?
When someone violates an adults right to make their own decisions.
What is emotional abuse?
A 30 year old disabled adult who resides at home but is not being cared for by caregivers.
What is the local county board of developmental disabilities?
WEAAD
What is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day?