Category: Elder Abuse/Neglect

Articles of Note: August 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date August 7, 2019

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our regular romp through the peer-reviewed science. Check it: we have not one, but two scientific papers this month on physicians committing misconduct, so that’s fascinating. We also get a look at how a clinician’s personal history of domestic violence impacts clinical care. Needless to say, there’s some good reading to be done in this edition (as always). Most links go to PubMed abstracts except where otherwise indicated.

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Articles of Note: July 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date July 11, 2019

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly romp through the peer-reviewed literature. This month there’s quite a bit that’s freely downloadable, so look for the FREE FULL TEXT notations for immediate gratification. Otherwise, links lead to PubMed abstracts and you can take it from there. Plenty here to keep you occupied…

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Using Expert Eyes and Ears to Document What We See and Hear

Post author By Jen
Post date July 9, 2019

SAFEta has a webinar coming up, On Looking and Writing: A Guide to Using Expert Eyes and Ears to Document What We See and Hear. The session will be held August 15th at 2pm ET. From the registration:

This webinar will help participants unlock their ability to see and write; to document their patient’s physical state and behaviors in an accurate manner. You will learn how to “paint a picture” with your words and accurately describe outward appearance, visible behavior, speech and eye contact using instantly understandable language.

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Articles of Note: May/June 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date June 4, 2019

Time once again for Articles of Note, our (almost) monthly romp through the peer-reviewed literature in search of all things new and/or useful to clinical practice, public policy, and testimony. As you may have noticed, I didn’t make one happen in May, so this month’s combined is pretty lengthy. There’s *a lot* here to work through, but I think it’s worth it. Some familiar faces in the bunch, too. Hope you enjoy.

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Is Your Agency Ready to Serve Transgender and Non-Binary Clients?

Post author By Jen
Post date May 14, 2019

I just discovered that FORGE has recently published a self-assessment, Is Your Agency Ready to Serve Transgender and Non-Binary Clients, and before you are all, of course, we are, we already do, may I suggest you take a good long look at the tool. Then at your program. And then start making the fixes you need to make. Bonus: if you’re in program development mode like we are right now, it’s like a glorious (albeit extensive) checklist. Not everything will be applicable, but enough of it is that you should download this ASAP.

Excellent work, team FORGE. This is a great (and much needed) resource.

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Updated Clinical Guide: Use of ALS to Identify Bruising

Post author By Jen
Post date April 30, 2019

In anticipation of the next research compilation, I have updated one of the most popular clinical guides on the site, Use of ALS to Identify Bruising. There have been a number of research articles published since the guide was last updated, so those have been added.

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WEAAD 2019: Lifting Up Voices of Older Survivors

Post author By Jen
Post date April 25, 2019

On June 5th at 2pm ET, the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), in collaboration with the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), will be hosting a webinar to preview a draft of their new video series, Lifting Up the Voices of Older Survivors. The webinar will be in anticipation of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, (June 15th) and it’s a particularly good one for your multidisciplinary teams. For those of you looking at expanded practice, this is a great opportunity to begin that conversation. I’m looking forward to seeing the video series, myself.

Articles of Note, April 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date April 11, 2019

Time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly frolic through the peer-reviewed literature. I assure you, this month’s is *full* of science you’re going to want to read, some of which is freely available through the links posted below. Everything else takes you to PubMed abstracts, which should take you down some excellent rabbit holes of their own. Happy reading!

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National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative Healthcare Training Module

Post author By Jen
Post date March 28, 2019

Last year I posted about the toolkit published by the National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative, and mentioned that they anticipated publishing a module for healthcare providers. I finally revisited their site, and the module is now live. It does a nice job of tackling a variety of issues related to recognition, the interplay of culture and understanding of abuse, and diagnosis and documentation, so if you’re looking for a place to start delving into this topic, it may be just what you’re looking for.

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New Research in Elder Abuse: Developing a Geriatric Injury Documentation Tool

Post author By Jen
Post date March 21, 2019

Sometimes with as much content contained on this site, things get lost. So I wanted to make sure I took a minute to highlight an article that has recently been published that might otherwise get missed in my usual roundup of research pubs every month. It’s in the elder abuse arena and has more of a medical-forensic focus, making it a comparatively less common finding in our world.

Developing the Geriatric Injury Documentation Tool (Geri-IDT) to Improve Documentation of Physical Findings in Injured Older Adults (Kogan, et al). The objective of the study: “To (1) use insights from experts to develop a tool to assist clinicians in appropriately and completely documenting physical findings in injured older adults for potential future forensic investigation of abuse or neglect and (2) to assess the feasibility of incorporating this tool into clinical practice.

Very excited to read this.

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New HIV Data from CDC

Post author By Jen
Post date March 19, 2019

A few things of which to be aware from CDC on HIV in the US that may impact your forensic practice:

Understanding the Impact of HIV: Diagnoses, Incidence and Prevalence (PDF)

HIV Among Women Fact Sheet (PDF)

HIV Infection Risk, Prevention, and Testing Behaviors Among Men Who
Have Sex With Men—National HIV Behavioral Surveillance, 23 U.S. Cities, 2017 (PDF)

Transmission Patterns in a Low HIV-Morbidity State — Wisconsin, 2014–2017

*And your reminder for assessing risk for HIV following sexual assault:

Recommendations for postexposure HIV risk assessment of adolescent and adult survivors within 72 hours of sexual assault

Assess risk for HIV infection in the assailant, and test that person for HIV whenever possible.
Use the algorithm to evaluate the survivor for the need for HIV nPEP (Figure) (312).
Consult with a specialist in HIV treatment if nPEP is being considered.
If the survivor appears to be at risk for acquiring HIV from the assault, discuss nPEP, including benefits and risks.
If the survivor chooses to start nPEP (312), provide enough medication to last until the follow-up visit at 3–7 days after initial assessment and assess tolerance to medications.
If nPEP is started, perform CBC and serum chemistry at baseline.
Perform an HIV antibody test at original assessment; repeat at 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months.

Assistance with nPEP-related decisions can be obtained by calling the National Clinician’s Post Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (PEP Line) (telephone: 888–448–4911).

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Articles of Note, March 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date March 7, 2019
1 Comment on Articles of Note, March 2019 Edition

Since we’re in a research frame of mind, I figured I might as well go ahead with this month’s Articles of Note, and there’s a lot to work through. I don’t want to completely nerd out on everyone, but man, there is some good reading to be done. As always, links generally take you to PubMed abstracts except where indicated.

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Articles of Note: February 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date February 6, 2019
4 Comments on Articles of Note: February 2019 Edition

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly waltz through the newly published peer-reviewed literature. I have to tell you, it’s a pretty glorious selection this month. Links lead to PubMed abstracts except where indicated.

Thinking about having a journal club for your team (or just looking for the next article to assign)? Here are some suggestions based on this month’s review:

For adult/adolescent SANE programs: Ectopic pregnancy following oral levonorgestrel emergency contraception use. or Vulnerabilities Relevant for Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children/Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors.

For CAC/peds programs: Barriers and facilitators affecting self-disclosure among male survivors of child sexual abuse: The service providers’ perspective. or Estimating the probability of abusive head trauma after abuse evaluation.

For expanded programs: Acquired Brain Injury in the Context of Family Violence: A Systematic Scoping Review of Incidence, Prevalence, and Contributing Factors. or Childhood maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization: A meta-analysis.

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Articles of Notes: January 2019 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date January 16, 2019

(Have you entered our giveaway yet for IAFN conference registration?)

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly romp through the newly published peer-reviewed literature. I hope you’ve made room on your nightstands and your e-readers, my friends, because there’s plenty to keep your brain occupied for a good long while. Links take you to PubMed abstracts except where indicated. Be a dear and cite back to FHO if you use our compilation 🙂

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Articles of Note: December 2018 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date December 12, 2018
2 Comments on Articles of Note: December 2018 Edition

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly romp through the peer-reviewed science. There’s a lot to work through here, but that’s a good thing, right? I have a ridiculously long reading list myself. So in the spirit of the holidays, here’s to chewy stats, lit reviews that make your pulse race (no? just me?) and topics that hit that sweet spot between I just saw this in clinic last week and holy crap there’s a subpoena waiting for me on my desk. Cheers everyone!

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Articles of Note: October/November 2018 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date November 1, 2018

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our mostly-monthly romp through the newly published peer-reviewed literature. This edition is a whopper. Almost six pages of science for you to peruse, and it’s worth going through the whole list because there’s so. much. good. stuff. there. Seriously. Links take you to PubMed abstracts except where noted otherwise. Happy reading!

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Screening for Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults

Post author By Jen
Post date October 30, 2018

Greetings from San Diego, where I am teaching for the Army this week. I hope everyone had a good conference! This year’s was incredibly successful from my vantage point, although I had to leave a day early–I know my sessions were packed, and we had terrific conversation in all three of them. Great getting to talk with so many of you in Reno. If you didn’t get to attend, hopefully, you’ll be able to join us next year in New Orleans. It’s always a good use of your time and resources.

Just in time to close out Domestic Violence Awareness Month, JAMA published the new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force on Screening for Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults. For my money, the accuracy of screening tools is probably one of the most important aspects of the statement, but the entire thing is worth the read.

Canadian’s, I looked for your equivalent statement, and it appears that the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released their document in 2013; I don’t see anything more recent. The US and Canadian Task Forces do not come to the same conclusions, but there is a 5-year difference in their authorship, so any comparison isn’t a fair one. If a more recent document exists, please let me know and I will get it posted. Happy to publicize any other countries’ recommendations, as well, so send them my way or post a link in the comments below.

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Articles of Note: September 2018 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date September 13, 2018

I had planned to post this yesterday, but I seem to have a gremlin in my Adobe Pro software right now, so apologies for the delay. I’m finally back in DC for a couple days before I head cross country to Fort Huachuca, and I desperately wanted to get this up, if for no other reason than it replenishes my reading stocks for these long flights and days that can often entail lots of sitting and waiting. As always, it’s not an exhaustive list, just what’s caught my attention in the new crop of peer-reviewed research. Several free full-text articles indicated on the list this month, so look out for those. Otherwise, all links lead to PubMed abstracts. Happy reading–lots of good stuff to occupy your time.

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Articles of Note: August 2018 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date August 16, 2018

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, our mostly monthly romp through the peer-reviewed research. As always, this is not an exhaustive list; simply what has caught my attention upon reviewing what’s new and noteworthy–and relevant to practice. All links lead to PubMed unless otherwise specified. Enjoy!

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Articles of Note: July 2018 Edition

Post author By Jen
Post date July 17, 2018

It’s time once again for Articles of Noite, our monthly romp through the new peer-reviewed literature. As usual, it’s not exhaustive–just the articles that have caught my attention and feel relevant to our practice. It feels like there’s a lot of good stuff to be found in this month’s roundup–I encourage you to spend some time wandering around the list. With the exception of a few noted citations, all links lead to PubMed abstracts.

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