§1397l Establishment and Support of Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Forensic Centers

Summary

Provides grants to set up and run stationary and mobile forensic centers and to build forensic skills and services about elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The Secretary, working with the Attorney General, will give 4 grants to colleges or universities with forensic experience or a focus on elder abuse to create stationary centers, and 6 grants to appropriate groups to create mobile centers. Grant money must be used to find and share markers and methods that show when elder abuse may have happened, to guide when health, emergency, social, or legal workers should help or tell police, to build medical and forensic expertise for exams, therapy, victim support, case review, and tracking, and to improve evidence collection by geriatric health workers and law enforcement using grantee data. Applicants must apply as the Secretary requires. Funding authorized: FY2011 $4,000,000; FY2012 $6,000,000; FY2013 $8,000,000; FY2014 $8,000,000.