Overview

Elder abuse and neglect (EA/N) is a public health and safety epidemic with impacts in emergency department utilization, nursing home placement, mortality, and financial losses. Vulnerability has been shown to be highly correlated with EA/N victimization, yet research is lacking on interventions aimed at decreasing vulnerability. Some preliminary process outcomes of a primary prevention strategy for EA/N victimization, the community complex care response team (CCRT) intervention, will be presented. The CCRT intervention is a collaboration of three community agencies that provides 61 services across the medical care, public health and social and community services and support sectors.

Presenters

Carolyn E. Z. Pickering, PhD, RN, School of Nursing,
U.of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Christopher D. Maxwell, PhD, School of Criminal Justice,
Michigan State University
Fuad Abujarad, MD, Emergency Medicine,
Yale University

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Recording

Details
Project: Testing of a Community Complex Care Response Team to Improve Geriatric Public Health Outcomes
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