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Recent Publications:

National Association of Triads One-Sheeter [December 2022]
Safe Driving Guide for Seniors and Older Adult Drivers: Senior citizens are living — and driving — longer than ever. As the older population grows, so do concerns about its impact on traffic safety.
A 2019 Guide to Alzheimer's and Dementia: What You Need To Know, And What New Research Says.
The Administration for Community Living's National Center on Law & Elder Rights released its Elder Justice Toolkit. It contains practical information on civil legal remedies, practice tips, and sample pleadings for attorneys seeking protection and redress for their clients who have experienced elder abuse.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Suspicious Activity Reports on Elder Financial Exploitation: Issues and Trends (February 2019)
Healthy Benefits of Senior Corps (February 2019): A new independent report sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service offers some good news: Senior Corps provides the access, structure, and financial support for low-income, at-risk Americans 55 and older to live happier, healthier lives while making a difference in their communities.
2018 Triad Program Manual was released late last year by the National Association of Triads, Inc.

Training

Disaster Preparedness: The STAR Initiative

The Safety Training and Resources (STAR) Initiative is a community-based training and database development project designed to provide emergency responders with crucial resource information. This citizen-led program is designed to assist local agencies with collecting information for community preparedness.

National Center for State Courts: Center for Elders and the Courts Elder Abuse Curriculum

The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) developed this curriculum in collaboration with the Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, with support from the Retirement Research Foundation of Chicago (grant number 2008-056). State judicial educators are welcome to adapt this curriculum for their state training programs.

Also available:

→ Enhancing Judicial Skills in Elder Abuse Cases Workshop: The workshop addresses the following topics using hypothetical case problems, role-plays, small-group workshops, and faculty demonstrations. The highly interactive format enables judges and judicial officers from different jurisdictions and levels of experience to learn from one another as well as from faculty experts.
→ Justice Responses to Elder Abuse: Justice Responses to Elder Abuse is a self-paced course offering a wide array of information and resources to address and reduce elder abuse. It is designed for use by practitioners and members of the public alike.The course presents the latest research on aging issues, including physical, cognitive and emotional changes that increase an older person’s vulnerability to abuse.

Elder Abuse Guide for Law Enforcement

By virtue of U.S. demographics, elder abuse is one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States. Elder Abuse Guide for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) is a national web module designed to support officers in identifying, intervening, and resolving cases of elder abuse.

EAGLE funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and was led by the University of Southern California’s (USC) Keck School of Medicine, host of the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA).

Law Enforcement Webinars:

• Forensic Interviewing for Older Adults
• Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and their Role in Investigations of Elder Financial Exploitation
• Collecting Evidence In Physical Abuse & Neglect Cases
• The Forgotten Victims: Elder Homicides
• Federal-State Working Group: Fraud Against Older Oregonians
• Law Enforcement Investigation of Financial Exploitation
• The Role of Law Enforcement in Elder Abuse Cases
• Helping Law Enforcement Respond to Elder Abuse Quickly

Roll Call Videos:

• Elder Abuse: False Imprisonment
• Elder Abuse: Financial Abuse by a Stranger
• Elder Abuse: Financial Abuse by a Family Member
• Elder Abuse: Neglect
• Elder Abuse: Physical Abuse
• Elder Abuse: Understanding Elder Abuse

Elder Fraud: Preventing Senior Scams (Produced by Consumer Action)

This training module covers many guises of fraud (with special attention to scams that target senior), signs of fraud and tips for avoiding scams.

Elder Financial Abuse (Produced by the American Bankers Association)

Explains the forms of financial abuse and how to recognize telemarketing schemes and online financial abuse. Explores the characteristics of seniors that make them targets of financial abuse. Analyzes the state and federal laws concerning elder financial abuse and how banks play a significant role in recognizing victimized seniors.

Financial Abuse of Older Adults: Recognize, Review and Respond (Produced by the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists)

Everyone knows elder financial abuse is a problem, but few understand what to do about it. This award-winning 35-minute course Financial Abuse of Older Adults: Recognize, Review and Respond is built around 3 short videos that illustrate how older adults are vulnerable to those they rely on the most – and what financial institutions can do about it.

Online Elder Abuse Training for Legal Service Providers (Produced by the Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center)

This interactive Web-based training program for legal aid and civil attorneys has four modules that offer a variety of information, tools, and resources to identify and respond to elder abuse, including Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Financial Fraud and Exploitation, Practical and Ethical Strategies, and What Lawyers Need to Know.