by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Geriatrics
State and federal agencies and banks are partnering to enact age-friendly banking practices to teach seniors about the different services and products they offer and social benefits and to protect them against financial abuse and exploitation, four panelists at a...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Management, Medicine, Nursing
Both researchers said that each of the 50 states they studied protects seniors from physical abuse, financial or material exploitation and neglect but definitions vary. Forty-four states carried emotional or psychological abuse provisions or laws. Forty states had...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Management, Medicine, Skilled Nursing
In recent years, both said, state laws on elder abuse and neglect have expanded. In particular, more states are requiring mandatory reporting of incidents. In 2000, researchers found that seven states did not demand reporting of elder abuse and neglect cases, a figure...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Assisted Living, Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Management, Medicine, Skilled Nursing
Nationwide, public and private sector laws and policies to elder abuse and neglect are fragmented and do not sufficiently address a problem that, if left under-addressed, may grow overtime with the number of seniors in the country’s population, two social work authors...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine
A White House conference for the first time addressed elder abuse. Greenlee said participants talked about financial exploitation and several government agencies such as her own and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and businesses attended. “Cognitive impairment is at...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Medicine
Connecting supporters of aging in place with advocacy for the disabled is the wave of the future for senior long-term care, government agency chiefs said in a keynote speech at a conference on aging. It will take all the different segments of the senior long-term care...
