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Current Projects
Panel on Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect
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Background
The panel will focus on assessing the knowledge base for understanding the nature of elder abuse e.g., what constitutes elder abuse and neglect, whether or not elder abuse is event based or person based, the definition of elder abuse, and the risk factors associated therewith. The panel will also address the current status of national, state, and local efforts to assess the incidence and prevalence of elder abuse and will focus on questions such as which data systems currently measure elder abuse and how? In addition, the panel will address the many methodological and statistical issues that arise, such as the measurement of relatively rare events that people are reluctant to report, how to combine information from different sources, and the importance of region-specific estimates, and factors involved in prevention of elder abuse and in intervention.
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Roster
- RICHARD J. BONNIE (Chair), University of Virginia School of Law
- TERRY FULMER, New York University
- RICHARD A. KULKA, Research Triangle Institute, NC
- EVA KUTAS, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services Division, Oregon Department of Human Resources
- EDWARD O. LAUMANN, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
- CONSTANTINE A. LYKETSOS, Johns Hopkins Neuropsychiatry Service
- GARY MELTON, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University
- LAURA MOSQUEDA, University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, Irvine, California
- GREGORY PAVEZA, School of Social Work, University of South Florida
- KARL PILLEMER, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
- LORI STIEGEL, Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, American Bar Association, Washington, DC
- ROBERT WALLACE, College of Public Health and Medicine, University of Iowa
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Staff
- Earl Pollack, Study Director
- Marisa Gerstein, Research Assistant
- Tanya Lee, Project Assistant
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Publications
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