Adult Protective Services

Statistical ReportFY 2006

July 2005 to June 2006

Compiled by Chris Alirechris.alire@sdcounty.ca.gov

The Overall Picture

• APS received 10914 referrals from July 2005 to June 2006.– 9097 assigned to investigate– 1196 referrals were similar or

same allegations (H) already assigned to APS

– 239 were new allegations on an existing case (P)

– 382 referrals were not assigned for investigation because they were out of APS jurisdiction, there was not enough demographic information to locate the client or some other reason.

APS Assignments by Office

• APS has 7 regional offices• Coastal (Oceanside) • North (Escondido), • El Cajon (East), • La Mesa, • South (Chula Vista),• Central (NGD),• Central (JG).

CENTRAL (NGD), 1347,

16%

SOUTH, 1099, 12%

NORTH, 1352, 15%

LA MESA, 1304, 14%

EAST, 1283, 14%

COASTAL, 1303, 14%

CENTRAL (JG), 1409, 15%

Region, Total Referrals and Percent of Total

Referral Source of APS Clients

Acute Care Hospital11%

Anonymous4%

Apartment Manager2%

County Department2%

Family13%

Fire Department2%

Friend4%

Home Health Agency

5%

Law Enforcement8%

Neighbor3%

Other21%

Physician2%

San Diego Regional Center

1%

Self10%

Skilled Nursing Facility/ Intermediat

e Care Facility3%

Aging and Independence

Services6%Unknown

1%

DEMOGRAPHICS OF APS CLIENTS

• Gender of APS clients.

  Male Female Unknown Total

Unknown 80 134 4 218

Dependent Adult 938 1317 15 2270

Elder 2044 3950 62 6056

Total 3062 5401 81 8544

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Male Female

Elder

Dependent Adult

Unknown

ELDER VS. DEPENDENT BY APS

OFFICE

0 500 1000 1500

CENTRAL (JG)

Central (NGD)

Coastal (Oceanside)

East

La Mesa

North (Escondido)

South

Dependent Adult

Elder

 

CENTRAL (JG)

Central

(NGD)Coast

al Eas

t

La Mesa North

South

Dependent

Adult 376 411 289 367 438 404 403

Elder 974 990 709 807 916 1073 921

DEMOGRAPHICS – MARITAL STATUS OF

APS CLIENTS

Separated3%

Divorced14%Widowed

29%

Unknown9%

Single24%

Otherless than 1%

Married21%

DEMOGRAPHICS: LANGUAGE & ETHNICITY

OF APS CLIENTSLanguage Total

Percent

Arabic 10 0.11%

Cambodian 9 0.10%

Chinese Mandarin

60.07%

Chinese (Other)

30.03%

English 8121 89.27%

Farsi 6 0.07%

Japanese 10 0.11%

Korean 5 0.05%

Kurdish 2 0.02%

Lao 7 0.08%

Non-Verbal 131 1.44%

Other 37 0.41%

Russian 12 0.13%

Sign Language

80.09%

Somali 4 0.04%

Spanish Only 515 5.66%

Tagalog 40 0.44%

Unknown 142 1.56%

Vietnamese 29 0.32%

Total 9097 100.00%

Ethnicity TotalPercen

t

African American

7458.19%

American Indian

40 0.44%

Asian Indian 6 0.07%

Asian/Pacific Islander

390.43%

Cambodian 9 0.10%

Caucasian 6462 71.03%

Chinese 26 0.29%

Filipino 157 1.73%

Guamanian 8 0.09%

Hawaiian 2 0.02%

Hispanic 1110 12.20%

Japanese 37 0.41%

Korean 13 0.14%

Laotian 6 0.07%

Middle Eastern

500.55%

Other 61 0.67%

Russian 17 0.19%

Samoan 7 0.08%

Somali 5 0.05%

Unknown 256 2.81%

Vietnamese 41 0.45%

Total 9097 100.00%

After Hours Hotline

• The APS Hotline is available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. During FY 2006, our after hours contractor, CRF, took a total of 1921 reports, consulted with APS on call standby worker, 189 times, and an APS Casemanager rolled out as an immediate response 4 times.

Findings: Self NeglectThe chart shows the findings for each allegation

category. The number after the category is thetotal number of cases that were referred for that

allegation.

745810 1405

120

306

489

448844

91

125

431308 417 52

24

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

SELF

NEG

LEC

TPH

YSIC

AL (1

426)

SELF-

NEG

LEC

TM

ED

ICA

L (1

142)

SELF

NEG

LEC

TH

EA

LTH

/SA

FETY

(220

9)

SELF

NEG

LEC

TM

ALN

UTR

ITIO

N(1

49)

SELF

NEG

LEC

TFI

NA

NC

IAL/O

TH

ER

(158

)

UNFOUNDED

INCONCLUSIVE

CONFIRMED

Findings: Abuse by Others

(1)The chart shows the findings for each allegationcategory. The number after the category is thetotal number of cases that were referred for that

allegation.

422

37

618

281

477

63

1138

755

197

28

690

628

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

PHYSICALABUSE (895)

SEXUALABUSE (103)

FINANCIALABUSE (2266)

NEGLECT(1531)

CONFIRMED

INCONCLUSIVE

UNFOUNDED

Findings: Abuse by Others

(2)The chart shows the findings for each allegationcategory. The number after the category is thetotal number of cases that were referred for that

allegation.

35

28

6

741

46

68

6

809

55

150

12

240

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

ABANDONMENT

(120)

ISOLATION (219)

ABDUCTION (19)

PSYCHOLOGICAL

ABUSE/ OTHER

(1683)

CONFIRMED

INCONCLUSIVE

UNFOUNDED

Financial Abuse by Others

• Of the terminated cases:• 8.46% had a confirmed case of

Financial Abuse• 15.57% had an inconclusive case of

Financial Abuse

• In addition to the confirmed and inconclusive financial abuse findings these cases also had an additional confirmed or inconclusive finding of physical abuse 8.43%, neglect 15.03%, and psychological abuse 26.28% at the same time.

• 47.21% of the cases also had an additional finding of confirmed or inconclusive self-neglect.