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Nursing Homes: Improved Oversight Needed to Better Protect Residents from Abuse

Dicken, John (Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2019)

Nursing homes provide care to about 1.4 million nursing home residents—a vulnerable population of elderly and disabled individuals. CMS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defines standards ...
What Is Elder Abuse? A Taxonomy for Collecting Criminal Justice Research and Statistical Data

Mallik-Kane, Kamala; Zweig, Janine (Urban Institute, 2016)

This report presents a working definition of elder abuse so research and statistical data may be collected uniformly across states and localities with different legal and programmatic definitions of elder abuse. Consistent ...
How much elder abuse occurs in the United States? We don’t know yet, but we’re getting there

Mallik-Kane, Kamala (Urban Institute, 2016)

This blog post summarizes what is currently known about the prevalence of elder abuse in the United States, the differences in state laws and definitions, and lack of data. (CVRL Abstract)
Body-worn cameras do not have clear or consistent effects on most officer or citizen behaviors, but different practices need further evaluation

Unknown author (Campbell Collaboration, 2020)

This Campbell systematic review summarizes the evidence from 30 studies of the effects of body-worn cameras on several officer and citizen behaviors. The majority of studies are from the USA...This summary is based on Lum, ...
We Need to Do More to Support Victims of Domestic Violence during the Pandemic

Ervin, Storm; Bastomski, Sara (Urban Institute, 2020)

This blog post reviews new data about how the pandemic, stay-at-home orders, and closed businesses impact the frequency and severity of domestic violence and how victim services and legal services can adapt to help. (CVRL ...
Review of Available Data and Literature on Services for American Indian and Alaska Native Victims of Crime

NCAI Policy Research Center (National Congress of American Indians, 2020)

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) partnered with the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) to help American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) victims of crime better access needed services. NCAI conducted ...
Screening for Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force

Feltner, Cynthia; Wallace, Ina; Berman, Nancy; Kistler, Christine; Middleton, Jennifer Cook; Barclay, Colleen; Higginbotham, Laura; Green, Joshua; Jonas, Daniel (JAMA Network Open, 2018)

Importance Intimate partner violence (IPV), elder abuse, and abuse of vulnerable adults are common and result in adverse health outcomes. Objective To review the evidence on screening and interventions for IPV, elder ...
The impacts of body-worn cameras in policing

Lum, Cynthia; Koper, Christopher; Wilson, David; Stoltz, Megan; Goodier, Michael; Eggins, Elizabeth; Higginson, Angela; Mazerolle, Lorraine (Campbell Collaboration, 2020)

This Campbell systematic summarizes the evidence from 30 studies of the effects of BWCs on several officer and citizen behaviors. The majority of studies are from the United States. (Author Text)
Making Elder Financial Exploitation Cases Part of a Sustainable Practice: Tips from the Experiences of the University of Illinois College of Law's Elder Financial Justice Clinic

Andres, Matthew (University of Illinois, 2016)

The American public has grown more aware of the growing threat of elder financial exploitation; counterintuitively, civil representation for victims of elder financial abuse has not become more readily available. In this ...
Do We Really Need Another Meeting? Lessons From the Los Angeles County Elder Abuse Forensic Center

Navarro, Adria; Wilber, Kathleen; Yonashiro, Jeanine; Homeier, Diana (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Purpose: Elder abuse cases are often time consuming and complex, requiring interagency cooperation from a diverse array of professionals. Although multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) offer a potentially powerful approach to ...
The Role of Social Support in the Life of Elder Abuse Victims

Hernandez-Tejada, Melba; Breckman, Risa; Burnes, David (National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA), 2012)

This brief summarizes a webinar presentation about the National Elder Mistreatment Study. The study found the importance of social support in reducing the risk of elder abuse and outcomes of victims 8 years after experiencing ...
Incidents of Potential Abuse and Neglect at Skilled Nursing Facilities Were Not Always Reported and Investigated

Lamir, David; Roy, Curtis; Conway, Allison (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019)

This audit report is one of a series of OIG reports addressing the identification, reporting, and investigation of incidents of potential abuse and neglect of our Nation’s most vulnerable populations, including the elderly ...
CMS Could Use Medicare Data To Identify Instances of Potential Abuse or Neglect

Lamir, David; Roy, Curtis (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019)

We identified 34,664 Medicare claims for our audit period that contained diagnosis codes indicating the treatment of injuries potentially caused by abuse or neglect of Medicare beneficiaries. We estimated 30,754 of these ...
Important Findings from the NCEA Resource Line

Weissberger, Gali; Han, S. Duke (University of Southern California Center on Elder Mistreatment, 2019)

This blog posts summarizes findings from a study by Han Research Lab at the University of Southern California, Department of Family Medicine which was published in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. The study focused on ...
Elder Justice: Goals and Outcome Measures Would Provide DOJ with Clear Direction and a Means to Assess Its Efforts

Goodwin, Gretta; Grover, Jenny (Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2019)

Researchers estimate that as many as 1 in 10 older U.S. adults are abused each year. This includes physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, financial scams, and neglect. It can occur at the hands of family, guardians, caregivers, ...
Why Some Older Adults are More Vulnerable to False Advertising and Scams

Unknown author (National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), 2012)

In a study by researchers at the University of Iowa and featured in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the participants with damage to a central area of the brain, known as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), were nearly ...
The PINE Report

Dong, XinQi; Simon, Melissa; Wong, Bernarda; Wong, Esther; Evans, Denis; Rajan, Bharat; Welch, Mary Jane (Chinese Healthy, Aging, and Policy Program, 2013)

The Population Study of ChINese Elderly in Chicago Study, or The PINE Study, is a collaborative effort between the Chinese Health, Aging, and Policy Program (CHAP) at Rutgers University, Northwestern University and several ...
Veterans Experiencing Elder Abuse: Improving Care for a High-Risk Population About Which Little is Known

Makaroun, Lena; Taylor, Laura; Rosen, Tony (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2018)

At least 10 percent of older adults may experience abuse, neglect or exploitation annually in the United States, and this problem is expected to grow as our population ages. Little is known about the prevalence and ...
Filial Piety Report: Health and Well-being of Chicago Chinese Caregivers

Dong, XinQi; Simon, Melissa; Wong, Bernarda; Wong, Esther (Chinese Healthy, Aging, and Policy Program, 2015)

The PIETY Study is a U.S. longitudinal study of Chinese families derived from The PINE Study. It is the product of a synergistic collaboration between the Chinese Health, Aging, and Policy Program (CHAP) at Rutgers University, ...
Pathways to Victimization Disclosure: Who LGBTQ+ Victims Tell and Why

Vasquez, Amanda; Houston-Kolnik, Jaclyn (Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), 2019)

National and state-level research points to higher rates of crime victimization, such as bullying, harassment, intimate partner violence, among individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and ...

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