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Legal aid group asks committee to expand elder‑abuse investigatory authority to custodial settings
Summary
Prisoners Legal Services testified for House Bill 786 / Senate Bill 466 to allow the Executive Office of Elder Affairs to investigate abuse or neglect of elders in custodial or nontraditional residential settings, citing an oversight that can leave older people without an adult protective service responder.
David Rainey of Prisoners Legal Services urged the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs to expand the Executive Office of Elder Affairs' jurisdiction so it can investigate abuse and neglect of elders held in custodial or nontraditional settings.
Rainey, executive director of Prisoners Legal Services, told the committee that adult protective service authority in Massachusetts is divided among several agencies and that…
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