The Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative is hosting a webinar to review their new MDT guide and toolkit. The session will be held May 3oth from 2-3pm ET, and is for anyone interested in starting or growing an elder abuse MDT in their own community. According to their website, the web-based toolkit “is enhanced for use on mobile devices and contains easy to download PDF sample documents and citations.” Worth checking out.
Register here.
OVCTTAC has a web series now available on polyvictimization in later life. It’s a series of 5 modules totaling 6 hours:
“The purpose of the training is to strengthen awareness of polyvictimization in later life and to provide knowledge and skills of professionals to address the needs of victims. The training addresses the context of polyvictimization; victims and perpetrators of polyvictimization; best practices to work with older adults affected by polyvictimization using trauma-informed, ethical, and culturally appropriate practices; and the latest research and best practices to serve this population.”
New from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the report Crimes Against Persons with Disabilities, 2009-2014 (PDF). The one-page summary is also available for download. From the press release:
Crime Against Persons with Disabilities, 2009–2014 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 250200) is now available on BJS.gov. This report presents estimates of nonfatal violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) against persons age 12 or older with disabilities. It compares the victimization of persons with and without disabilities living in noninstitutionalized households, including distributions by—
Findings were based on data from BJS’s National Crime Victimization Survey from 2009 to 2014, which were combined with data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to generate victimization rates.
NCALL has a webinar coming up: Health Care Providers’ Role in Identifying and Responding to Older Victims of Abuse. The session will be held 8 December at 11am ET. From the site:
Health care providers are in a unique position to identify and respond to elder abuse. Dr. Veronica LoFaso, a geriatrician at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City, will discuss signs of elder abuse and neglect and how health care providers can identify and respond to potential older victims. Dr. LoFaso will also describe how victim service providers and other professionals can engage health care providers to work collaboratively with them. In addition, she will describe the important role health care providers can play on multidisciplinary case coordination teams.
Register here.
The California Senior Medicare Patrol program is hosting a webinar, Critical Issues Facing Seniors and Persons with Disabilities. It will be held October 27th at 10am PT, but space is limited for this session so register soon. Click through for details:
From the site:
Please join us on October 27, 2016 at 10am PDT for an enlightening, three-part educational webinar on critical issues facing seniors and persons with disabilities: Medical Identity Theft and Healthcare Fraud; Marketing Violations involving Medicare Advantage Plans; and the Universal Epidemic of Elder Abuse.
Micki Nozaki, Facilitator: Micki Nozaki is the Director of the California Senior Medicare Patrol program a project of California Health Advocates.
Julie Schoen, Presenter: Julie Schoen is the Deputy Director with the National Center on Elder Abuse.
Julie Lowrie, Presenter: Julie Lowrie is an Investigator, with the Office of Enforcement at the California Department of Managed Health Care.
For those of you interested in expanding your programs, here’s one avenue for funding services for older victims of abuse. The National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life and the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators are hosting a webinar to review federal funding opportunities for services to this population (PDF). The session will be held October 5th at 3pm ET. Click through for details, including registration deadlines:
Time once again for Articles of Note, our (almost) monthly guide to what’s new and interesting (to me) in the peer-reviewed literature. Click through to find both the printer-friendly PDF and the Word doc with active hyperlinks. As always, please provide attribution if you reproduce any portion of this or share with others–a lot of work goes into compiling these.
Time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly walk through what’s new and noteworthy in the peer-reviewed literature. As always, this is not an exhaustive review, but a list of what’s caught my eye and feels relevant to my own (and hopefully your) practice. Click through for a print-friendly PDF or the Word doc with live links. Please provide attribution if you share or use any portion:
{Don’t forget, we have a giveaway going on through Friday, July 8th, noon ET!}
I’m finishing up vacation with the family, and the beach summons. So I leave you with this compelling long read from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, License to Betray: Doctors and Sex Abuse. To give you a taste:
With everything that’s happened in the last 6 weeks, I’ve gotten a bit behind in a few areas, including FHO. So this is a pretty robust Articles of Note, with lots to peruse. I was particularly pleased to see so many familiar faces among the authors in this round. Click through for the Word doc with live links, and the more sharable PDF. Attribution, please, if you distribute or alter.
IAFN and AALNC are so-sponsoring a webinar, Forensic Nursing: Standards of Care for Evidence Collection, Documentation of Injury and Maintaining a Chain of Custody. The session will be offered June 28th from 3-4pm ET. CEUs will be available; the cost is $25 for members of either organization ($60 for non-members). Click through for details:
NSVRC is hosting a Q&A session on sexual violence in later life with Holly Ramsey-Klawsnik. The session will be held June 15th at 2pm ET. Questions were gathered from the field, and others will be taken from the audience at the time of the webinar. Click through for a sample of Dr. Ramsey-Klawsnik’s written work:
Time once again for Articles of Note, your (almost) monthly guide to what’s new in the peer-reviewed literature. Keep in mind this is an overview of what’s piqued my interest, not a comprehensive list of everything relevant, so I encourage you to check out what else is available. Click through for the Word doc with active links, and the more printer-friendly PDF. As always, I ask that you properly attribute the doc if you use it or share.
CDC just released a new publication, Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence: A Strategic Vision to Connect the Dots. From the site: The different forms of violence—child abuse and neglect, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, elder abuse and suicidal behavior—are interconnected and often share the same root causes. Understanding the overlapping causes of violence and the things that can protect people and communities can help us better prevent violence in all its forms. CDC’s Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence: A Strategic Vision for Connecting the Dots (PDF) describes the Division of Violence Prevention’s 5-year vision and areas of strategic focus to help us understand, respond to, and ultimately prevent violence across the lifespan.
Time once again for Articles of Note–what’s new in the peer-reviewed literature that has captured my attention. And let me tell you something: there’s a lot to go through here. Some fantastic articles, a few of which are free full-text. You’re definitely going to want to spend some time on this list, because there’s much to recommend (and so my stack of to reads grows even larger). Click through for the Word doc with active links or the more printer friendly and sharable PDF. As always, please give attribution if you use or alter these.
I took a snow day yesterday, along with almost everyone else in the DC metro area. The government is still shut down today and cars are littering the roads around my neighborhood (although it stopped snowing Saturday night, as of this posting, I still haven’t seen a plow on my street). Technically, today is a snow day, as well, but there really aren’t too many of those for the self-employed. So back at work I am. I’ll be heading to CLE tomorrow for a quick visit with my kiddo, but today, the focus is Articles of Note. So without further explanation, here’s what’s new and noteworthy in the peer-reviewed journals. Click through for both the printable PDF and the link-friendly Word doc. As always, attribution, please, if you use or distribute my work.
Time once again for Articles of Note, my walk through the recent peer-reviewed literature. While not exhaustive, it’s an overview of the articles that have been published in the last 4-6 weeks that seem most relevant to my practice (the operative words being my practice). FHO readership has grown *so much* in just the last 6 months that it’s getting harder and harder to anticipate relevance for this broadly focused and multidisciplinary audience (not a complaint). So I encourage you to use this list as a jumping off point–follow the footnotes, check out the tables of contents for these journal editions, see what else is out there that speaks to the work that you do. Click through for the more printer-friendly, sharable PDF and the Word doc with active hyperlinks:
The current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has a free full-text article on elder abuse that’s worth reading and sharing with your team and colleagues in the ED, ICU, etc. Although obviously clinically focused it’s one to bring to your next multidisciplinary meeting, as well.
I have updated the clinical guide, Determining the Age of Bruising. It’s one of our more popular one (I send a lot of lawyers there, in particular), so I’m glad to have had the opportunity to overhaul this one. There’s some new research, plus I am trying to slowly get all of them in a consistent format. You’ll find both a Word doc with active hyperlinks and the more printer friendly PDF. Enjoy.
The next adult-focused webinar in the series over at the Tribal Forensic Healthcare project is on elder abuse. It’ll be held October 7th from 3-4:30pm. As with all of their sessions, CEs are available, and it will be archived, so no worries if you can’t participate live. Click through for details: