Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA

Witness Statements:
Robert Blancato, President, National Committee for Prevention of Elder Abuse, Executive Director of 1995 White House Conference on Aging, Washington, DC

Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX

Joanne Otto, M.S.W., Executive Director, National Association of Adult Protective Services Administrators, Boulder, CO

Carmel Dyer, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, co-director of the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute, Houston, TX

Randolph Thomas, M.A., Law Enforcement Instructor, Section Coordinator for Domestic Investigations and Behavioral Services Unit, South Carolina Department of Public Safety, Criminal Justice Academy, Columbia, SC

Richard Bonnie, J.D., Chair, Panel to Review Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect, Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council, Charlottesville, VA