Exploring Risk of Elder Abuse Revictimization: Development of a Model to Inform Community Response Interventions.

A focus of community-based elder abuse response programs (EARP), such as Adult Protective Services, is to reduce the risk of revictimization among substantiated victims. While elder abuse (EA) risk factor research has predominantly focused on understanding the risk of initial EA onset among the general older adult population, understanding of risk among substantiated victims is weak. This study sought to identify conditions that perpetuate EA among substantiated victims.

A systematic evaluation of a multidisciplinary social work-lawyer elder mistreatment intervention model.

This study introduces a conceptually based, systematic evaluation process employing multivariate techniques to evaluate a multidisciplinary social work-lawyer intervention model (JASA-LEAP). Logistic regression analyses were used with a random sample of case records (n = 250) from three intervention sites. Client retention, program fidelity, and exposure to multidisciplinary services were significantly related to reduction in mistreatment risk at case closure.