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Weill Cornell receives funding to study
creation of new Elder Abuse Center
Newswise — Weill Cornell Medical College has
been awarded $80,000 to study the creation
of a Manhattan Elder Abuse Case Coordination
and Review Center (EACCRC), in collaboration
with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center
for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew
Home at Riverdale and the New York City
Elder Abuse Network.
Funded by the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels
Foundation, with matching funds from a donor
identified by the Hebrew Home at Riverdale,
the new financial support will go towards
advancing the goals of preventing abuse and
helping victims achieve a life without
mistreatment.
Each year, as many as 10 percent of older
Americans are injured physically,
debilitated psychologically and exploited
financially, often by an adult child or
other family relative.
The new Center would build on the work of
the New York City Elder Abuse Network -- a
multidisciplinary group of more than 40
physicians, social workers, attorneys,
psychiatrists and other professionals that
has been meeting monthly since 2006 to
discuss cases of elder abuse and formulate
strategies to improve intervention and
prevention.
"With the number of older people on the
rise, it is increasingly important to
develop effective strategies for addressing
elder abuse and neglect. This is a complex
problem that requires a focused
collaborative effort.
"This
grant will provide the resources to take our
work to another level," says Risa Breckman,
L.C.S.W., director of social work education
and programs in the Division of Geriatrics
and Gerontology at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a
nationally renowned authority on elder abuse
and neglect.
"We are very grateful to the Samuels
Foundation and matching funds from the
Hebrew Home at Riverdale donor for their
support of this program, which will help
transform what is currently an ad hoc group
into a formal entity," adds Dr. Mark Lachs,
co-chief of the Division of Geriatrics and
Gerontology, director of the Center for
Aging Research and Clinical Care, and the
Irene F. and I. Roy Psaty Distinguished
Professor of Clinical Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
He is
also director of geriatrics for the NewYork-Presbyterian
Healthcare System and Paul Beeson Physician
Faculty Scholar from the American Federation
for Aging Research through funding from the
John A. Hartford Foundation.
Research by Dr. Lachs has identified such
repercussions of elder abuse and neglect as
overwhelming feelings of fear, isolation and
anger, as well as depression, and links to
decreased longevity.
For more information, visit
cornellaging.com/elderabuse.
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