PPT-MONEY SMART Preventing Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

Presented by AmeriCorps Seniors Metro Atlanta RSVP A Program of the Atlanta Regional Commission Goals What is elder financial exploitation Financial exploitation is when a person misuses or takes the assets of a vulnerable adult without their knowledge or consent depriving them of vital financial resources for their own personal needs. Research shows that as many as 57375ve million older adults are victims of elder abuse each year Financial exploitation also known as 57375nancial abuse is believed to cost seniors an estimated 3 billion annually It is a threat to the health safety Marlette B. Reed, . BEd. , MA. Annette M. Lane, RN, PhD. Sandra P. Hirst, RN, PhD, GCC. What does existential mean?. Pertaining to purpose and meaning. Personhood: what it means to be human. . -the bigger issues of life – and death – as they pertain to who one is: Who am I? What does life mean? Will I cease to exist after I die?. Shawn M Lang, Director of Public Policy. CT AIDS Resource Coalition. HIV/AIDS and Older Adults. What are HIV and AIDS?. H. uman . I. mmunodeficiency . V. irus. A. cquired. . I. mmunodeficiency . D. Professor Katherine Porter UC Irvine Law. Legal and Policy Solutions. Financial Abuse of Elderly. What is financial exploitation in the context of older/elder Americans?. Definitions. Incidences. Consumer Financial Markets. Financial Exploitation. Joshua D. . Uy. , M.D.. UPenn. , Department of Medicine. Michael J. Byrne . Pennsylvania Securities Commission. Preventing Elder Investment Fraud: Assessing Your Patients for Vulnerability to Financial Exploitation. APS Training 2015. Peter A. Lichtenberg, . Ph.D. , ABPP. Director IOG and Professor of Psychology . Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology. p.lichtenberg@wayne.edu. Acknowledgements. Research team at WSU APS. B. Renee Dugger, DNP, RN, . GCNS-BC*. *. Special acknowledgement and thanks to Meredith Wallace PhD, APRN, A/GNP-BC and the Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium (GNEC. ) for resources utilized for this presentation . Melissa Mattson . and . Diane Mortimer. Objective 1. List at least three ways recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI) differs between older and younger adults. . How is TBI different in older adults?. What is loneliness like for older adults?. Being Alone. Loneliness defined. Loneliness is the subjective feeling of being alone. It is “the distress that results from discrepancies between ideal and perceived social relationships.” . Deborah Hasin, Ph.D.. Frederic C. Blow, Ph.D.. SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG OLDER ADULTS:. AN EMERGING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. Title page. Today’s Broadcast. Present the latest research on:. High-risk drinking and alcohol use disorders among those 55 and older (Dr. Deborah Hasin). Florida Elder Justice Conference. Presenters: Ellen Cheek & Nancy Wright. April 12, 2019. OVERVIEW. Elements of Exploitation. Exploitation Red Flags & Case Studies. The Process. Questions and Comments. INTRODUCTION. Older adults comprise a major portion of the population. For dentistry, older adults are retaining more teeth which means providing treatment for them is a separate entity. A knowledge about the aging changes in the . Tier 3. Psychosis. What is psychosis?. ‘Some loss of contact with reality’. This might involve hallucinations or delusions’ (NHS). Hallucinations – hearing voices/ seeing things/ sensation that someone is touching them/ experiencing smells that are not there. Tier 2 . Eating disorder . An eating disorder is when the person has an unhealthy attitude to food which can over their life and make them ill.. It can involve eating too much or too little, and/ or becoming obsessed with their body and shape.