Enhanced Services for Older Adult Victims of Abuse and Exploitation - Lifespan of Greater Rochester, with project partner, SUNY at Brockport, will provide enhanced supportive services to older adult victims of abuse, neglect and exploitation, including fraud and scams, identified in three programs within Lifespan’s Upstate Elder Abuse Center: Elder Abuse Prevention, Fraud, Scams & ID Theft Prevention, and the Enhanced Multidisciplinary Team Initiative. All three programs focus on addressing the imminent crisis of mistreatment and exploitation until the risk of further mistreatment is eliminated or mitigated. The Goal of the proposed project is to reduce the risk of revictimization and to support maximal independent functioning by providing long term, coordinated social, health-related, and financial services. The project will achieve the following Objectives: 1) project staff will link clients to Lifespan’s extensive menu of supportive services or to others in the community and facilitate access to financial management and benefits over a period of six to eighteen months; 2) project staff will develop a protocol to evaluate the impact of the program on client functioning and safety using evidence-informed instruments in concert with project evaluator, SUNY Brockport. Outcomes: In addition to reduced risk of further elder mistreatment, anticipated outcomes include improved access to healthcare services, improved financial functioning and access to public benefits, reduction in social isolation and greater social engagement, client self-reports of improved safety and security. Products include a service model for extended case management and enhanced services for victims of elder mistreatment and exploitation, instruments for data collection and evaluation of client outcomes, compilation of a final report, dissemination of results in statewide and national conferences, and submission of results for publication.
