caregiving - Training Resources on Elder Abuse

Caregiving Chronicles: Lived Experiences and Life Edits

Source: National Center on Elder Abuse

Published: 2023

Summary:

Join the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center (LACRC) at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology of USC with an esteemed panel of journalists, caregivers, and practitioners for a panel discussion to celebrate National Family Caregivers Month.

Gain insights from acclaimed journalists and caregivers who are amplifying the voices and experiences of caregivers, discover how practitioners can better integrate culturally sensitive and responsive approaches to support caregivers, and learn how to recognize signs of elder mistreatment and ways to embrace the opportunities and challenges in caregiving relationships.

PowerPoint Slide | Video Recording

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Tips and Tools for Providing Culturally Competent and Responsive Care to Older People who Experience Abuse
Tips and Tools for Safe and Supportive Caregiving

Link: Caregiving Chronicles: Lived Experiences and Life Edits

Topics: Caregiving

Access: Web-based

Intended Use:

Audience: Caregivers, Community, Social Services

Level: Basic, Intermediate

Tips and Tools for Safe and Supportive Caregiving

Source: National Center on Elder Abuse

Published: 2022

Summary:

About the Podcast:

In this 32 minute podcast, Ms. Mars and Dr. Benton discuss the prevalence of family caregiving, the challenges and rewards of caregiving, and barriers to help-seeking resources for overwhelmed carers. Drawing upon her thirty years of experience working with family caregivers, Dr. Benton suggests a broad range of resources and supports to facilitate successful caregiving and prevent mistreatment. The podcast highlights particular challenges and helpful supports for diverse family caregivers.

Featured Speakers:

Donna Benton, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Research associate professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, director of the Family Caregiver Support Center/LA Caregiver Resource Center at the School of Gerontology.

Donna Benton, Ph.D. is an Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Research associate professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She is the director of the Family Caregiver Support Center/LA Caregiver Resource Center at the School of Gerontology. She was co-chair for the California Taskforce on Family Caregiving, which led to a report outlining recommendations for supporting family caregivers throughout the diverse communities in CA. She is a board member for the CA Elder Justice Coalition. She is currently serving on the DEI committee for the CA Master Plan for Aging. Her research focus is on evidence-based interventions for family caregivers. Her latest research is developing online education for family caregivers to persons with dementia to help prevent elder abuse. She has numerous publications and enjoys speaking on policy recommendations for family caregiver.

Lori Mars, JD, LLM

Deputy Director of the National Center on Elder Abuse

Lori Mars, JD, LLM, is the Deputy Director of the National Center on Elder Abuse. She is an assistant professor of clinical family medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. After practicing law for over 20 years, Lori’s concentration lies in the area of elder abuse research and education. She is interested in scholarship at the intersection of law, aging, and elder abuse. Ms. Mars has a master’s in law in alternative dispute resolution and serves as a volunteer long-term care ombudsman. She is passionate about elder justice and advocating for the rights of all older adults to live with dignity and respect.

Podcast landing page

Link: Tips and Tools for Safe and Supportive Caregiving

Topics: Caregiving

Access: Web-based

Intended Use: Self-directed Learning

Audience: Caregivers

Level: Basic, Intermediate

Navigating Family Caregiving: Personal Stories and Practical Tools

Source: National Center on Elder Abuse

Published: 2022

Summary:

Join the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center (LACRC) at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology of USC, and the Diverse Elders Coalition with an esteemed panel of authors, caregivers, and practitioners for a panel discussion to celebrate National Family Caregivers Month. Panelists will discuss navigating complex dynamics and boundaries in caregiving relationships, how professionals and agencies can respond more effectively to caregivers’ needs, the impact of culture on caregiving, and strategies to identify and prevent elder mistreatment in caregiving relationships. A Q&A session will follow the panel discussion. Closed captioning will be available during the webinar.

Caregiving Podcast

Tips and Tools for Safe and Supportive Caregiving

Slides | Video Recording

Link: Navigating Family Caregiving: Personal Stories and Practical Tools

Topics: Caregiving, Cognition/Capacity

Access: Download, Web-based

Intended Use: Self-directed Learning

Audience: Caregivers

Level: Basic

Financial Wellness and Older LGBTQ+ People

Source: Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, National Center on Elder Abuse and SAGE

Published: 2023

Summary:

This webinar, provides an overview of SAGE’s financial wellness app, SAGECents, and how SAGE is creating a safe space for older LGBTQ+ people to learn more about their finances, as well as provide tools to save money, increase their credit scores and more. FTC’s new consumer education campaign – Money Matters: How to Spot, Avoid, and Report Scams at FTC.gov/MoneyMatters. CFPB’s resources for financial caregiving, scam prevention, recovery from elder financial exploitation, and financial wellbeing. NCEA’s resources for identifying suspected older adult financial fraud and how to seek to support in your local community.

Video Recording

Link: Financial Wellness and Older LGBTQ+ People

Topics: Diversity/Cultural Competency, Financial Abuse, Prevention/Intervention

Access: Web-based

Intended Use: Self-directed Learning

Audience: Community, Finance

Level: Basic, Intermediate

Person-Centered Decision-Making: Options Less Restrictive Than Guardianship

Source: National Center on Elder Abuse

Published: 2022

Summary:

Featured Speakers:

Naomi Karp, JD

CONSULTANT, LAW, AGING & POLICY

Naomi Karp is a consultant on aging, law, and policy for educational, governmental and non-profit clients. She is a lawyer and policy expert who has worked on aging issues for over 35 years. Her areas of focus include elder financial exploitation, guardianship, health and financial decision-making, the impact of cognitive changes, and family caregiving. She is the co-author of the Thinking Ahead Roadmap, a guide and web-based tool to help people keep their money safe as they age. Her clients include the US Department of Justice, AARP, and the National Center on Elder Abuse.

From 2011 to 2019, Karp was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office for Older Americans. At the Bureau, Karp was the team lead for the Managing Someone Else’s Money guides for financial caregivers; a manual for long-term care facilities on protecting residents; and the agency’s work with financial institutions on preventing and responding to elder financial abuse.

Previously Karp worked on a spectrum of aging issues at the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging and at AARP’s Public Policy Institute. She began her career as a legal services attorney for low-income and older clients. She received her JD from Northeastern University School of Law and her BA from the University of Michigan.

Erica F. Wood, JD

CONSULTANT, LAW AND AGING

Erica F. Wood served as Assistant Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging, and was associated with the Commission from 1980 to 2020, where she worked primarily on issues concerning adult guardianship, health and financial decision-making, legal services delivery, dispute resolution, health and long-term care, and access to court. She has participated in national studies on public guardianship and guardianship monitoring; and played a role in convening national consensus conferences on guardianship. Prior to 1980, she served as staff attorney at Legal Research and Services for the Elderly, National Council of Senior Citizens. Ms. Wood received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the George Washington University. She has spoken and written on law-related topics concerning older adults for many years. In 2013 she received the Isabella Horton Grant Guardianship Award from the National College of Probate Judges.

Erica Wood currently serves as a member of the Virginia Commonwealth Council on Aging and the Virginia Public Guardian and Conservator Advisory Board. She previously served on the advisory board of the Virginia Public Guardianship and Conservatorship Program. She has been a member of the Arlington Commission on Aging, and chair of the Arlington Commission on Long-Term Care Residences. She is interested in aging advocacy and is an active member of the Northern Virginia Aging Network.

About the Podcast:

Two attorneys with expertise in guardianship and alternatives will take us on a journey through the least restrictive methods to remain autonomous in decision making and explore the options available should capacity decline. The series includes two related podcasts. The first podcast (32 minutes) focuses on health care and personal decision-making; and the second podcast (41 minutes) focuses on financial and property decision-making. Both podcasts include an introduction explaining conceptual frameworks for the two kinds of decision-making.

Podcast landing page

Link: Person-Centered Decision-Making: Options Less Restrictive Than Guardianship

Topics: Guardianship/Conservatorship

Access: Web-based

Intended Use: Self-directed Learning

Audience: Advocates, Caregivers, Legal/Law Enforcement

Level: Basic, Intermediate

Supporting Black Caregivers and Older Adults

Source: National Center on Law and Elder Rights

Published: 2022

Summary:

To celebrate Black History Month and National Caregivers Day (February 18th), NCLER interviewed Dr. Donna Benton of the University of Southern California’s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. In this brief video interview, Dr. Benton discusses her work supporting Black caregivers, the importance of caregiving in the Black community, and strategies for advocates who wish to better support their Black older adult clients. She also talks about the need for legal assistance in advance planning and addressing issues involving housing scams in the Black community.

Donna Benton, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She received her graduate training in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and was a Gero-psychological postdoctoral fellow at USC/Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center. Benton is the Director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center (FCSC) and the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center (LACRC). She has over 30 years of experience in providing direct service, advocacy and programs for families caring for persons with dementia. She was appointed to the CA Master Plan for Aging Stakeholder Advisory Commission and the CA Commission on Aging (CCOA). Her research focus is on the development of online evidence-based interventions for family caregivers to improve mental and physical health and wellbeing and prevention of elder mistreatment. She also serves as a mentor to students interested in advocacy for caregivers.

Video

Link: Supporting Black Caregivers and Older Adults

Topics: Caregiving, Diversity/Cultural Competency

Access: Web-based

Intended Use: Self-directed Learning

Audience: Advocates, Caregivers, Community

Level: Basic, Intermediate

How to Motivate Aging Adults to Make a Money Management Plan

Source: Legal Assistance for Seniors

Published: 2021

Summary:

Presenters: Marti DeLiema, PhD – Assistant Research Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Naomi Karp, Esq.

Millions of aging Americans are challenged to prepare for uncertain health and financial setbacks in addition to cognitive impairment that impacts one-third of adults over age 85. Advanced planning can reduce the negative impact of impairment on personal finances, including financial exploitation, scams and fraud, and care and spending decisions that are not aligned with retirement goals.

One of the smartest ways to prepare for changes in financial decision-making capacity is to talk with a trusted friend or family member about financial needs and wishes for the future, and to appoint a power of attorney in the event that oversight and support is needed. To motivate and guide aging adults to begin this important planning process and start meaningful conversations about money and future care, we developed the Thinking Ahead Roadmap. The content and design was informed by two years of research conducted at the University of Minnesota.

Marti DeLiema, PhD is an interdisciplinary gerontologist and Assistant Research Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, Professor DeLiema studies retirement security and financial victimization using focus groups, in-depth interviews, surveys and panel data. Her research is funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute on Aging, the Social Security Administration, the Society of Actuaries, AARP, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. Prior to joining the School of Social Work, Dr. DeLiema was a Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity. She graduated with her doctorate from USC School of Gerontology where she conducted research on elder abuse and neglect in minoritized communities, evaluated outcomes of a multidisciplinary team’s response to elder abuse, and analyzed the tactics scam artists use to deceive older adults.

Naomi Karp is a consultant on aging, law, and policy for educational, governmental and non-profit clients. She is a lawyer and policy expert who has worked on aging issues for over 35 years. Her areas of focus include elder financial exploitation, guardianship, health and financial decision-making, the impact of cognitive changes, and family caregiving. Ms. Karp is the co-author of the “Thinking Ahead Roadmap”, a guide and web-based tool to help people keep their money safe as they age. Until October 2019, Karp was Senior Policy Analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office for Older Americans where she helped set the Office’s priorities when the agency opened in 2011. At the Bureau, Karp was the team lead for the Managing Someone Else’s Money guides for financial caregivers. Ms. Karp began her career as a legal services attorney for low-income and older clients and received her JD from Northeastern University School of Law and her BA from the University of Michigan.

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Link: How to Motivate Aging Adults to Make a Money Management Plan

Topics: Caregiving, Financial Abuse, Prevention/Intervention

Access: Download, Web-based

Intended Use: Self-directed Learning

Audience: Advocates, Caregivers, Community, Finance

Level: Basic, Intermediate