“Elder” means any person residing in this state, 65 years of age or older.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 15610.27
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Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 32 Cal. 4th 771 - Covenant Care, Inc. v. Superior Court (2004)
Most recently applied in 248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 672 - Tanguilig v. Valdez (May 2019)
Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 594, Sec. 3
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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