White House Conference of Aging - Follow-up on Elder Abuse

As a follow up to the White House Conference of Aging (WHCOA) Listening Tour, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a workshop on Oct. 30th on “Multiple Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Elder Abuse and Mistreatment.” The purpose of the workshop was to focus on the applications of lessons learned across fields, and to consider common challenges and opportunities in elder abuse, child abuse, intimate partner violence, and other related fields. Researchers raised important concerns about the lack of fundamental “basic science” knowledge about elder abuse that is critical to developing evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies. It is of no surprise that they found that more research, training, and research infrastructure is necessary to make significant progress in preventing abuse and developing evidence-based programs in the future.

More information about the NIH workshops and a page of resources, some are free until the end of the year, can be found here.

Contact: Cheryl Udell, cudell@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8871