NYC's First Elder Abuse Center

NYC's first elder abuse center created by NYP/Weill Cornell in collaboration with community partners

August 11th, 2009

Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center will create a New York City Elder Abuse Center in order to improve intervention and treatment for elder abuse cases in the New York City area. The first center in the New York area to focus on coordinating elder abuse cases, the Center has received grants totaling $375,250 -- $300,000 from the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation and $75,250 from the FJC, A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds -- to develop the first phase of the Center's operations. It is expected to begin operations later this year.

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.

Planning for the Elder Abuse Center began in April 2008, with a grant from the Samuels Foundation and an anonymous donor. The team researched and adapted various models for improving elder abuse intervention, including the approach taken by the Archstone Foundation in California. The case coordination model was pioneered in the 1980s for dealing with child abuse cases.

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SOURCE: Physorg.comj

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