Emergency department and hospital-based teams to respond to potential cases of elder mistreatment: an idea whose time has come -- I was very excited to contribute to a just-published special issue of the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect devoted to these response teams and their potential. The issue was based on the information and experiences shared during a 2-day in-person collaborative meeting/consensus conference between members of our Vulnerable Elder Protection Team (VEPT) at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Vulnerable Elder Support, Protection, and Advocacy (VESPA) team at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The teams, which are the first of their kind in the US, worked together on peer-reviewed articles on a range of topics including: ethical challenges in ED/hospital management of elder mistreatment, collaboration with community-based multi-disciplinary teams, role of the specialized elder mistreatment social worker, the elder abuse geriatrics clinician, and dissemination of this new care model. Each will move the field forward and, together, they hopefully represent a substantial advance.
Thank you very(!) much to the guest editors for this special issue, Terry Fulmer and Abby Maglich, who did an extraordinary amount of work to improve each of the articles and make this issue happen. Thanks also very much to Karen Stein and Sharon Merriman-Nai, the journal's editors, for their extraordinary support. Really great work by all of the colleagues who collaborated on these manuscripts: Elizabeth Bloemen, MD, MPH, Michael Stern, Alyssa Elman, Elaine Gottesman, Danny Baek, Amy Shaw, Jennine McAuley, Dan Lindberg, Chloe Pino, Michelle Sullivan, MMS, PA-C, Iggy E-Shien Chang, PhD, MA, David Hancock, Robin Yasui, Sarah Tietz, Barrie J. Huberman, PhD HEC-C, Ezra Gabbay, Lisa Rachmuth, Kristin Furfari, Jackie Glover, Veronica LoFaso, Sunday Clark, Seth Herman, and Avery Kirshner, LCSW, CCM
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