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Excerpt from Elder Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, May 10, 1985
The subject of today's hearing, abuse of the elderly, is alien to the American ideal. It represents a shocking and still largely hidden problem affecting over a million of our Nation's most help less and vulnerable people every year. The average citizen would find it hard to imagine just how widespread and frequent is this problem of abuse of the elderly. It cuts across all classes of society, and occurs in large cities, in small towns, and in the rural areas.
It has been 8 years now since our committee first began hearings on this issue. We are rather proud to remind you today that it was our committee that pioneered the investigation of this subject. The term elderly abuse did not exist prior to our hearings. It was largely a hidden problem stemming from victims' fear or depend ence on their abusers.
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