Tens of Thousands Suffer in Silence

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Too ashamed or scared to speak up, tens of thousands of 50-plus victims of domestic violence suffer in silence...

"It's a hidden epidemic," says Daniel Reingold, president and chief executive officer of the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riversdale, New York, who compares the current awareness of late-life domestic violence to the nascent domestic violence and child-abuse movements 25 years ago.

"Which to say, we don't have any agreed-upon definitions, and intervention is sporadic and uneven."

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What they are saying is late-life domestic violence will be in twenty-five where child abuse is today , a comforting thought for those younger readers