Category: Elder Abuse/Neglect

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.

Register for the webinar here.

Read more about the video series here.

Check out the most recent research compilation from NCEA here (PDF).

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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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Have you checked out the FHO store lately? You can find our newest research brief, Aging Bruises Based On Color, plus our original guide, Injury Following Consensual Sex. Both available now for electronic download.

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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Have you checked out the FHO store lately? You can find our newest research brief, Aging Bruises Based On Color, plus our original guide, Injury Following Consensual Sex. Both available now for electronic download.

In observance of World Elder Abuse Day, the American Society on Aging is hosting a webinar, Coordinated Community Responses and Beyond: Collaborations to Address Crimes Against Older Adults. The session will be held June 14th at 10am PT. Free CEUs are available, but I am unclear what type of CEUs they are. From the site:

This web seminar will provide participants with practical tips on creating and maintaining a coordinated community response (CCR) to address issues of elder abuse and financial exploitation. Attendees will learn strategies to bridge common gaps seen between senior service providers, victim advocates at community-based organizations, and other partners involved in the response to survivors of abuse later in life. In addition to providing a blueprint for building comprehensive coalitions to address crimes against older adults in a holistic way, this presentation will offer tips on how to ensure the sustainability of a coordinated community response.

Register here.

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The National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative has a Tribal Elder Protection Team Toolkit now available. “The Toolkit is designed to help you identify and implement a tribal elder protection team. The toolkit is made up of several sections. Each section contains information that concentrates on different aspects of developing a tribal elder protection team.” Obviously, since I’m posting it here, medical services are included in the team outline. You’ll find the following five sections:

• Section 1: Introduction
  An overview of elder protection teams and issues specific to tribal communities.
• Section 2: Developing a Tribal Elder Protection Team
  Learn about the benefits, how to get started, and barriers to service.
• Section 3: Developing Tribal Elder Abuse Codes
  The tribal elder abuse code allows the tribe to establish laws that protect elderly persons from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
• Section 4: Team Members
  The team is made up of a coordinator, group of professionals, the elder, family members, and community members from diverse disciplines.
• Section 5: Cultural Sensitivity Resources
  Responding to elder abuse, interviewing elders, and tips for developing tribal relationships are discussed in this section.

You’ll also find some online education modules on their site, and while none of them are healthcare specific, I noted that healthcare is listed as one of the future topics, so continue to check back. Regardless, for those of you working with tribal communities, there is some solid, basic education available that is worth sharing with your team, particularly if they haven’t had much in the way of elder abuse education.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here.