Research
Our research spans elder justice in a variety of settings, including:
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Domestic Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation, including cases involving family members, paid or informal care providers, or other individuals. Our faculty was the first in the world to conduct community prevalence studies of elder abuse, and to demonstrate the high mortality associated with elder abuse. We are the Co-PI with NYC-Department for Aging, and we will be partnering with Lifespan in Rocheseter, NY to conduct a study of elder abuse prevalence in NYS, the first such statewide study in the nation. The project is funded, in part, through the New York State Children and Family Trust Fund, a program administered under the NYS Office of Children and Family Services.
- Elder Abuse and Neglect occurring in nursing homes, assisted living,
or other long term care facilities. Both clinicians and researchers
in these environments, we have conducted research on the phenomenology
of abuse and neglect in these settings, including interpersonal aggression between
residents, from
resident to staff, and from
staff to resident.
- Crime committed against older people in the community. We are the principal investigators of the only large epidemiologic study of crime victimization in older people. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the work has demonstrated the harmful effects of violent and non-violent crime in older people, including
an increased risk of nursing home placement after victimization.
- Self neglect in older adults. Faculty members with the�Cornell Elder Justice Project�have a growing interest in�self
neglect in older adults. Dr. Maria Pavlou recently received a Brookdale
Scholarship to study this under researched phenomenon.
- The Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, in collaboration with Cornell's
Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA),
held a consensus
workshop on elder abuse prevention in NYC in May 2007. One of CITRA's goals
is to develop forums that facilitate a continuous loop of communication
between researchers and practitioners. Consensus workshops help create a
shared conception of aging-related problems and solutions between the two
groups. The goals of the NYC Elder Abuse Prevention consensus workshop were to convene
a select group of research, practitioner and policy experts and arrive at
a consensus regarding research, practice and advocacy recommendations. This
process generated 41 relevant and practical research
recommendations that
will be disseminated to aging service and research communities.
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