ELDER VICTIMIZATION
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In 2008, 627 people age
65 or older were murdered.
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In 2007, 91,590 persons
over the age of 65 were victims of violent crime.
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In 2007, 61 percent of
personal crimes against victims age 65 or older were reported to the police,
the highest reporting rate of any age group.
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Crime victims age 65 or
older lost a total of $1.3 billion due to personal and property crimes in
2007.
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Of those who reported
crimes to the Federal Trade Commission in 2008, people ages 60 and over made
up 8 percent of fraud victims and 12 percent of identity theft
victims.
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In 2008, the average loss
per Internet fraud complaint was $1,000 for people age 60 or older.
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The most recent survey of
adult protective services found that 191,908 reports of elder abuse and
neglect of people age 60 or older were substantiated in 2004.
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Of those reports, 20
percent involved caregiver neglect; 15 percent involved emotional,
psychological, or verbal abuse; 15 percent involved financial exploitation; 11
percent involved physical abuse; and 1 percent involved sexual abuse.
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In 2004, more than half
of alleged perpetrators of elder abuse were women.
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In 2004, domestic
settings were the most common locations of abuse in substantiated
reports.
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Of the alleged
perpetrators of elder abuse in 2004, 33 percent were adult children; 22
percent were other family members; 16 percent had an unknown relationship to
the victim; and 11 percent were spouses or intimate partners.
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The largest segment of
alleged perpetrators of elder abuse in 2004 were between 30 and 50 years of
age.
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In 2004, more than 65
percent of elder maltreatment victims reported to adult protective services
were women.
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In 2004, African
Americans constituted 21 percent of reported elder maltreatment victims,
despite representing 8 percent of all Americans age 65 or older.
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People age 65 or older
are equally as likely to face an offender with a weapon as younger
people.
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