World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: Join Us in Building Stronger Supports for Older Adults
Join us and our network of grantees and colleagues on June 15 to recognize World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) by using the below resources.
WEAAD was launched by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and is recognized as a United Nations Observance. The purpose of WEAAD is to provide an opportunity for communities around the world to promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older persons by raising awareness of the cultural, social, economic and demographic processes affecting elder abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), the Education Development Center (EDC) and the National Alliance for Caregiving recently partnered to create The Elder Mistreatment Prevention Toolkit for Public Health. Using the Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) 6Cs Framework, the toolkit includes guidance on creating and leading programs that incorporate elder mistreatment prevention, connect with partners to improve older adult health outcomes, collect relevant data, and complement existing public health programming.
As a complement to the toolkit, the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) has partnered with TFAH and EDC on a blog post, "Strengthening Public Health’s Roles in Elder Mistreatment Prevention."
Access additional resources from JAHF partners and grantees to help build strong supports for older adults that prevent elder mistreatment:
NCEA WEAAD Materials:
- WEAAD Toolkit and Action Page
NCEA Resources:
- NCEA offers many resources, including research briefs; information for caregivers, faith communities, interdisciplinary teams and pre-professionals; and consumer fact sheets on protecting your loved one from financial exploitation in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
- Signs of Elder Abuse factsheet (also available in Spanish, Chinese and Korean).
JAHF/Grantee Resources:
- The National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment: A national initiative led by EDC that brings together experts to develop, test and expand a care model to better identify, prevent and respond to elder abuse through tools, training, research and system-level collaboration.
- The National Collaboratory Mentorship Program: Meet the clinicians, service providers, researchers, policymakers and advocates from multiple disciplines who are focusing on elder mistreatment and abuse.
- Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit: Available on the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative website, this toolkit from the National Collaboratory contains resources that train ED staff to use simple screens and action steps to address elder mistreatment.
Find out more ways to take action.
Learn more at the WEAAD website.
Go to the NCEA.
Learn more about JAHF's support of EDC's National Collaboratory.
