If your adult child was abusing you financially, emotionally or physically, what would you do?

In New York State, for every one reported case of elder abuse, about 23 typically go unreported, according to the “ Under the Radar: New York State Elder Abuse Prevalence Study ,” which those who work in the adult services field said continues to correlate with what they see on Long Island. There are approximately 260,000 older adults who are victims of physical, sexual, financial or psychological abuse each year, according to the study issued in 2011 which a spokesperson for the state Office for the Aging confirmed “is still the most recent and definitive study on elder abuse prevalence.”

“There are a lot of reasons that people don’t report the abuse,” said Haley Gordon, who coordinates a S

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