When does adult protective services respond to a report?
The department will initiate a response to a report of suspected abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, misappropriation of resident property, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult when the alleged facts and circumstances reasonably fit the definition of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, misappropriation of resident property, neglect, or self-neglect as defined in RCW
74.34.020 or this chapter.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
74.34.068,
74.34.165; 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396r (g)(1)(D), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1395i3 (g)(1)(D). WSR 21-11-108, ยง 388-103-0020, filed 5/19/21, effective 7/1/21.]