Protective Services for Adults/Social Services

Protective Services for Adults - are services to individuals 18 years of age and older who are unable to protect their own interests, harmed or threatened with harm through action or inaction by another individual or through their own action due to lack of awareness, incompetence, or poor health which results in a physical or mental injury, neglect or maltreatment, failure to receive adequate food, shelter, or clothing, deprivation of entitlements due them or wasting of their resources, and have no one willing and able to help them in a responsible fashion.