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The federal government should provide state and local agencies greater assistance for fraud prevention and deterrence.
Policymakers should develop and fund programs to make communities safer for residents living in a variety of settings.
Occupational regulation should provide meaningful consumer health, safety, or financial well-being benefits. Policymakers should streamline licensing requirements where possible.
Policymakers should prohibit lawsuit settlement provisions that keep confidential information that could endanger health and safety while protecting legitimate confidentiality interests such as pri
Congress should reauthorize the Elder Justice Act (EJA). It should fully fund the EJA and other programs that address elder abuse.
Policymakers should devise Silver Alert programs to alert the public to missing older adults with appropriate protections and limitations.
The subject of an alert must:
Policymakers should encourage advance care planning. This should include the creation of advance directives.
States should enact laws that:
Federal policymakers should expand programs to improve guardianship. This should include monitoring programs.
Policymakers should protect and enforce the fundamental right of all people to be free from discrimination. They should enact and enforce civil rights statutes.