Elder abuse reform returning to Minnesota Legislature as advocacy groups search for consensus
DULUTH — The 2019 Minnesota Legislature will again take up reforms aimed at keeping vulnerable and elderly Minnesotans safe and holding accountable those who are charged with their care. Efforts to do so earlier this year failed.
Rep. Liz Olson, DFL-Duluth, who will be the majority whip in the DFL-controlled House when the Legislature convenes in a month, said she’s hopeful her chamber and the Republican-controlled Senate will come together to create meaningful change. So are her fellow lawmakers.
“We don’t have another year to put this issue on the backburner,” said Sen. Karin Housley, R-St. Mary’s Point.
After a StarTribune investigation last fall that found very few reported allegations of elder abuse were being fully investigated, a consumer-led task force in January called for “far-reaching policy and agency practice changes to prevent and deter abuse.”
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