By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
Newnan Times-Herald
May 25, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) -- DeKalb County is teaming with Emory Healthcare to offer a new program to investigate abuse of senior citizens and find them temporary shelter - one of the first such programs in the country.
Officials from the county and university announced the program at an Atlanta news conference Tuesday morning.
DeKalb County had only 40 substantiated cases of elder abuse last year, but officials believe its a vastly underreported problem.
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