Objectives and Purposes: To promote the humane treatment of elder equine through education and awareness programs for the general public as well as the equine community; to provide information on care of elderly equine assisting owners in properly maintaining older animals through retirement; to support municipal and court efforts to enforce humane treatment and animal control laws; to rescue and rehabilitate abused or neglected equine; to provide for the lifetime care of elderly equine; and to place eligible program equine in permanent adoptive homes.