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              Page3Cross-validation of the screening scale in an adult protective services sample
    
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2019
    Publication Type
          Research (Applied/Empirical),
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                        Report (Grant Sponsored),
                        Program/Project Description
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          NIJ-SponsoredEvaluability Assessment of the Weinberg Center for Elder Justice's Elder Abuse Shelter Services
    
        Date Published

2023
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          NIJ-SponsoredDefining and Studying Elder Abuse Polyvictimization
    
        January 2023
      
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                  Justice Today Podcast

            NIJ Social Science Analyst Yunsoo Park shares her knowledge about elder abuse, a widespread issue in the U.S. and around the world, particularly polyvictimization — the experience of a range of different types of abuse and maltreatment. As much as 11% of community-residing older adults experienced some form of abuse or mistreatment in the past year. Yunsoo discusses risk factors, difficulties in defining and studying elder abuse polyvictimization, and strategies for intervention and prevention. Stacy Lee Reynolds, a Communications Assistant with NIJ, hosts.Improving forensics: Characterizing injuries among community-dwelling physically abused older adults
    
        Date Published

August 2021
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          Research (Applied/Empirical)
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          NIJ-SponsoredWho is in the revolving door? Policy and practice implications of recurrent reports to adult protective services
    
        Date Published

2020
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          Research (Applied/Empirical)
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          NIJ-SponsoredElder Abuse: Research, Practice and Policy
    
        Date Published

2017
    Publication Type
          Report (Technical Assistance),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored),
                        Program/Project Description
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          NIJPent-up demand for care among dual-eligible victims of elder financial exploitation in Maine
    
        Date Published

2020
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          NIJ-SponsoredA randomized-control trial testing the impact of a multidisciplinary team response to older adult maltreatment
    
        Date Published

2019
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          NIJ-SponsoredAbuser Risk Measure: Reports by Alleged Victims to Adult Protective Services
    
        Date Published

2019
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          NIJ-SponsoredAPS Investigation Across Four Types of Elder Maltreatment
    
        Date Published

2012
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                        Report (Study/Research),
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          NIJ-SponsoredSocioecological indicators of senior financial exploitation: an application of data science to 8,800 substantiated mistreatment cases
    
        Date Published

2020
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          NIJ-SponsoredDevelopment of Short-form Measures To Assess Four Types of Elder Mistreatment: Findings From an Evidence-based Study of APS Elder Abuse Substantiation Decisions
    
        Date Published

2017
    Publication Type
          Research (Applied/Empirical),
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          NIJ-SponsoredElder Abuse Decision Support System - Field Test Outcomes, Abuse Measure Validation, and Lessons Learned
    
        Date Published

April 2017
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          NIJ-SponsoredHouston and Harris County Develop Partnership To Combat Elder Abuse
    
        Date Published

July 2017
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          NIJ-SponsoredHow 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?
    
        Date Published

June 2013
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          Report (Study/Research)
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          NIJ-SponsoredSexual Abuse and Dementia in Older People
    
        Date Published

2006
    Publication Type
          Report (Study/Research)
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          NIJ-SponsoredTowards the Development of a Screening Tool To Enhance the Detection of Elder Abuse and Neglect by Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs): a Qualitative Study
    
        Date Published

2016
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          Research (Applied/Empirical),
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          NIJ-SponsoredBarriers in Detecting Elder Abuse Among Emergency Medical Technicians
    
        Date Published

September 2016
    Publication Type
          Research (Applied/Empirical),
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                        Report (Grant Sponsored),
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          NIJ-SponsoredFinancial Exploitation Intervention Team Evaluability Assessment
    
        2019-V3-GX-0005
      
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            $995,926Elder Abuse: How Much Occurs and How Do We Measure It?
    
        June 2009
      
            NIJ Conference Panel
Panelists will present NIJ research on elder mistreatment in noninstitutionalized adults as well as tools for measuring the financial exploitation and psychological abuse of the elderly. A recently completed telephone survey of more than 6,500 older adults living in the community provides the most accurate estimates of the prevalence and incidence of physical, sexual, financial and emotional elder abuse. A second study used state-of-the-art science methods to develop a tool that measures the financial and psychological abuse of elders.Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse
    
        June 2010
      
            This panel will feature NIJ-funded research that has direct, practical implications for the prosecution of elder abuse cases. Panelists will present findings from a study of prosecutors in three states that examined the factors that influenced their decisions to prosecute elder financial abuse cases. The panel will also provide the results from an evaluation of five innovative court-based models that target perpetrators of elder abuse.Is It Old Age, Abuse or Homicide? Using Forensic Markers and Technology to Detect Elder Abuse and Neglect
    
        June 2009
      
            Panelists will present results from NIJ-funded studies on bruising and CT scanning and discuss the important role of forensic information and technology in effectively investigating violent crimes against the elderly.Forensic Markers of Physical Elder Abuse: Establishing a Medical Characterization and Identifying the Criminal Justice Approach to Investigation and Prosecution
    
        Date Published

January 2019
    Publication Type
          Research (Applied/Empirical),
                        Report (Study/Research),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored),
                        Program/Project Description
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          NIJ-SponsoredImportance of Investigating Abuser Characteristics in Elder Emotional/Psychological Abuse: Results From Adult Protective Services Data
    
        Date Published

January 2017
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          NIJ-SponsoredProsecuting Cases of Elder Abuse - Panel Discussion at the 2010 NIJ Conference
    
        Date Published

June 2010
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          NIJPagination
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