National Adult Maltreatment
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The National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS) is a data reporting system established and operated by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), with support from the Adult Protective Services Technical Assistance Resource Center (APS TARC), for the purpose of better understanding the phenomena of adult maltreatment in the United States. Currently, the data collected is submitted by adult protective services (APS) programs.
NAMRS annually collects data on APS investigations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults and adults with disabilities, as well as information on the administration of APS programs. The data provides an understanding of key program policies, characteristics of those experiencing and perpetrating maltreatment, information on the types of maltreatment investigated, and information on services to address the maltreatment.
What data is submitted to NAMRS?
NAMRS collects information on APS programs and de-identified data on adult maltreatment cases, such as:
- Organizational information, including: number of investigators, how programs collect reports of maltreatment, and populations investigated.
- Number of reports of alleged maltreatment received by APS programs.
- Number of adults with a substantiated investigation of maltreatment.
- Number of allegations by type of maltreatment (such as self-neglect, financial exploitation, and abuse).
There are various “components” to NAMRS for different kinds of data and different kinds of reporting.
Did you know?
- NAMRS has a 100% participation rate from all 56 states, territories, and District of Columbia.
- For federal fiscal year 2022, NAMRS collected information on 1,387,225 referrals of alleged maltreatment to APS and 806,219 investigations.
- For federal fiscal year 2022, NAMRS collected information on 8,364 full-time APS hotline or investigator professionals and 1,821 APS supervisors.
- NAMRS collects more than 50 data points on adult maltreatment cases.
Latest Adult Maltreatment Report
This report (PDF | 5 MB) is the seventh annual release based on 2022 data from the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS), which is a voluntary data reporting system collecting data from state Adult Protective Services (APS) systems. All states, territories, and District of Columbia contributed data to this report.
Last Modified: 01/13/2026