Older abusers (those over 65 years) are more likely to be husbands.In 2007, 4766 cases of suspected abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation involving older adults were reported, an increase of 9 percent over 2006. 19 incidents were related to a death, and a total of 303 incidents were considered life-threatening. About one in 11 incidents involved a life-threatening or fatal situation.In 2012, the study called Pure Financial Exploitation vs. Hybrid Exploitation Co-Occurring With Physical Abuse and/or Neglect of Elderly Persons by Shelly L. Jackson and Thomas L. Hafemeister brought attention to the hybrid abuse that elderly persons can experience. This study revealed that victims of hybrid financial exploitation or HFE lost an average of $185,574, a range of $20–$750,000. Barriers to obtaining statistics
Several conditions make it hard for researchers to obtain accurate statistics on elder abuse. Researchers may have difficulty obtaining accurate elder abuse statistics for the following reasons:

Elder abuse is largely a hidden problem and tends to be committed in the privacy of the elderly persons home, mostly by his or her family members. Elder abuse victims are often unwilling to report their abuse for fear of others disbelief, fear of loss of independence, fear of being institutionalized, fear of losing their only social support (especially if the perpetrator is a relative), and fear of being subject to future retaliation by the perpetrator(s). Elder abuse victims cognitive decline and ill health may prevent them from reporting their abuse.
Ella may refer to:

Ella (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname

Places
United States
Ella, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
Ella, Oregon, an unincorporated community
Ella, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
Ella, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Lake Ella, Tallahassee, Florida

Greenland
Ella Island, an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland

Sri Lanka
Ella, Sri Lanka, a town in Uva, Sri Lanka

Arts and entertainment
Music
Ella (Ella Fitzgerald album), 1969
Ella (Juan Gabriel album), 1980
Ella (Malaysian singer) (born 1966)
"Ella" (Jack de Nijs song), by André Moss, Jack De Nijs, 1973
"Ella", song by Raphael (singer) L. Favio, 1969
"Ella" (José Alfredo Jiménez song)
"Ella", song by The Way (band) J. Hill, R. Hill, 1972
"Ella", song by Bebe from Pafuera Telarañas, 2004
"Ella" (Tan Biónica song), by Argentine group Tan Biónica, 2010

Other
Ella (2016), documentary film about Australian dancer Ella Havelka
Ella Martinez, a protagonist in the Maximum Ride fantasy novel series
Ella (novel), by Uri Geller
the title character of Ella the Elephant, a Canadian animated preschool series

Other uses
ELLA (programming language), hardware design language
435 Ella, a Main belt asteroid
Tropical Storm Ella (disambiguation), several tropical storms
USS Ella, various United States Navy ships
Ella, trade name in the US of ulipristal acetate, an emergency contraceptive

See also
All pages with titles beginning with Ella
"Ella, elle la", a 1987 song by France Gall
Several settlements near Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom:
East Ella
Kirk Ella
West Ella
Elah (disambiguation)
Aelle (disambiguation)