should adult protective services get involved? should there be a guardianship? etc. looking at the situation and communicating with one another, but you also develop the lines of communication that allow them to be more effective in how they respond to other situations. - you've made the comparison, and so have others, that we are decades behind in dealing with elder abuse, especially when you mpare it, say, to domestic abuse and child abuse. are you just talking about awareness or in terms of how those issues are dealt with? when you say that we're decades behind, what's the alarm bell that should be ringing for us? - well, let me give you a couple of examples. in terms of federal legislation, the child abuse prevention and treatment act was enacted in 1974, and the violence against women act was enacted in994, and it took until 2010 to pass the elder justice act, and still we haven't seen either funding or implementation. - all right, so let's focus on that now. you helped write it, right? lofty goals. what is it supposed to do? - well, it's supposed to do a n