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Date: June 26, 2008, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
To Register and Access the Webcast:
https://www.telspan.com/Registration/Jump.aspx
and enter event number “3086”
Summary:
The first in-depth, statewide study of elder abuse prevalence in the nation is currently
being carried out in New York. The webcast will provide an overview of how this
vitally important and critically needed research came about, how it is being undertaken,
and what the researchers hope the field will learn from it. The project is a partnership
between LIFESPAN of Rochester, NY, the New York City Department for the Aging (NYC
DFTA), and Cornell University. Principal investigators are Mark Lachs, MD (Cornell)
and Jackie Berman, PhD, (DFTA). 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.
In addition to this project, information will be presented on research on the increased
mortality of elder abuse victims compared to their non-abused cohorts, resident
to resident abuse in nursing homes and elder crime victims’ interactions with law
enforcement.
Speakers:
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Dr. Mark Lachs, an internist and geriatrician, is the Irene and Roy Psaty Distinguished
Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Co-Chief of Geriatrics
and Gerontology, and the Director of Geriatrics for the New York Presbyterian Health
System. Both a clinician and researcher, Dr. Lachs has conducted numerous study
of elder abuse outcomes and epidemiology, and he is principal investigator of the
largest longitudinal study of elder abuse victims which was funded by the National
Institutes on Aging.
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Art Mason, is Director of LIFESPAN’s Elder Abuse Prevention Program (EAPP) which
covers a 10 county area and deals with nursing home abuse, fraud prevention and
abuse and mistreatment prevention and intervention in the Finger Lakes region of
New York State. He is also the President-Elect of NAPSA.
To Access the Webcast:
https://www.telspan.com/Registration/Jump.aspx
, and enter event number “3086”
Questions?
Contact: Kathleen Quinn (NAPSA), Email:
kathleen.quinn@apsnetwork.org
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