Adult Protective Services

Physical abuse is causing the infliction of physical pain or injury to an eligible adult.

Sexual abuse is touching, fondling, sexual threats, sexually inappropriate remarks, or any other sexual activity with an eligible adult when he or she is unable to understand, unwilling to consent, threatened, or physically forced to engage in sexual behavior.

Emotional abuse is verbal assaults, threats of maltreatment, harassment, or intimidation intended to compel the eligible adult to engage in conduct from which he or she wishes and has a right to abstain, or to refrain from conduct in which the eligible adult wishes and has the right to engage.

Confinement is restraining or isolating, without authority, an eligible adult for other than medical reasons as ordered by a physician.

Passive neglect is another individual’s failure to provide an eligible adult with the necessities of life including, but not limited to food, clothing, shelter, or medical care because of failure to understand the eligible adult’s needs, lack of awareness of services to help meet needs, or a lack of capacity to care for the eligible adult.

Willful deprivation is deliberate denial of medication, medical care, shelter, food, therapeutic devices, or other physical assistance to a person, who because of age, health, or disability, requires such assistance and there by exposes that person to the risk of physical, mental, or emotional harm because of such denial, except with respect to medical care or treatment when the dependent person has expressed an intent to forego such medical care of treatment and has the capacity to understand the consequences.

Financial exploitation is the use of an adult’s resources by another to the disadvantage of that adult or the profit or advantage of a person other than that adult.