Brown receives grant to study elder abuse
01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
By Tracy Breton Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Brown University’s Center for Gerontology & Health Care Research has received a $209,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to get a better handle on how much elder abuse exists in Rhode Island.
Much elder abuse never gets reported so researchers don’t expect to come up with definitive statistics on the extent of the problem. But Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl, a professor of community health at Brown’s School of Medicine and the principal investigator for the project, said she believes that there is much more documented elder abuse in Rhode Island than anyone previously has reported.
She said she hopes her group’s research spurs more people in the community to report the abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly.
(abridged article) SOURCE: projo.com
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