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                            Funding & Awards
 Financial Abuse of the Elderly vs Other Forms of Elder Abuse: Assessing Their Dynamics, Risk Factors, and Society''s Response
Award Information
Awardee
              University of Virginia
Award #
              2006-WG-BX-0010
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Alexandria, VA
Congressional District
              8
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2006
Total funding (to date)
              $290,414
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY06 Research and Evaluation on Elder Abuse
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2006, $290,414)
The National Center on Elder Abuse reports that 92% of financial abuse victims are elderly women and the most vulnerable group are those over 80.  Very little else is known about risk factors for financial abuse of the elderly.  Thus the goal of this study is to identify factors associated with financial abuse of the elderly as opposed to other forms of abuse.  The methodology would involve structured interviews with 240 abused elderly individuals, 120 of their current partners and 60 APS caseworkers who dealt with those cases.  The selection of APS caseworkers will begin with a random selection of APS supervisors from 45 jurisdictions with the goal of obtaining agreement from 30 localities ' 10 rural, 10 suburban, and 10 urban.  Supervisors will identify 2 caseworkers at each locale.  Each APS worker in the study will be asked to obtain from their records their four most recent closed cases (in the past 18 months) in four categories- financial abuse, physical abuse, neglect, a hybrid.  The data collection instruments have been designed.  The questionnaires are quite detailed asking about the nature of the incident, descriptive information about the victim and perpetrator, type of help sought, and previous experience with the perpetrator.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Theory-Based Models Enhancing the Understanding of Four Types of Elder Maltreatment
                  How Case Characteristics Differ Across Four Types of Elder Maltreatment: Implications for Tailoring Interventions To Increase Victim Safety
                  How Case Characteristics Differ Across Four Types of Elder Maltreatment: Implications for Tailoring Interventions to Increase Victim Safety
                  How Do Abused Elderly Persons and Their Adult Protective Services Caseworkers View Law Enforcement Involvement and Criminal Prosecution, and What Impact Do These Views Have on Case Processing?
                  Understanding Elder Abuse: New Directions for Developing Theories of Elder Abuse Occurring in Domestic Settings
                                                                      NIJ Research in Brief,
                  Enhancing the Safety of Elderly Victims After the Close of an APS Investigation
                  APS Investigation Across Four Types of Elder Maltreatment
                  Financial Abuse of Elderly People vs. Other Forms of Elder Abuse: Assessing Their Dynamics, Risk Factors, and Society's Response




  
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                      http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29301.v1

  
Date Created: September 13, 2006
    
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