{"id":222891,"date":"2026-06-19T04:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222891\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:14:20","slug":"berks-county-oks-joint-elder-abuse-prevention-team-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222891\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County OKs joint elder abuse prevention team | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Board of Commissioners authorized a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to participate in a regional effort to combat elder abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;elder abuse multidisciplinary team&#8221; is a joint effort among Berks, Lehigh and Lancaster counties.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the members will be able to better support each other and better coordinate services and responses.<\/p>\n<p>State officials say the effort is designed to increase protection for older Pennsylvanians as abuse cases grow more complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Board of Commissioners authorized a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to participate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,23290,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-222891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-elder-abuse","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}