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• Frailty and Perceived Financial Exploitation: Findings from the Finance, Cognition, and Health in Elders Study

  The latest publication from Han Research Lab! Older adults who report financial exploitation show more frailty, specifically poorer sensory functioning. Led by Jenna Axelrod.

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• Inter-Rater Reliability of the California APS Interview for Decisional Abilities (IDA 3.0-CA)

  As part of a larger randomized controlled trial to test the California APS Interview for Decisional Ability (IDA 3.0-CA), we sought to determine the reliability of the instrument. Gregory Stevens, Kelly Sadamitsu, Theresa Siver-Teixeira, Christina Penate, Jason Karlawish and Bonnie Olsen assessed the extent to which trained APS personnel reached similar conclusions about a client’s decisional ability (i.e., inter-rater reliability) when presented with a client vignette and a completed IDA 3.0-CA form.

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• ADVOCATING FOR AGE IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

  We are reading and listening to ageist language where COVID 19 is referred to as a “Boomer Remover” and older adults are being suggested as expendable in the name of the economy. NCEA Deputy Director, Julie Schoen and Project Coordinator, Aly Neumann as well as FrameWorks Institute CEO, Nat Kendall-Taylor provide some advice on what we can do as aging advocates to curb this messaging.

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• ELDER ABUSE IN THE COVID-19 ERA

  The COVID-19 pandemic is putting older Americans at risk for more than just a deadly disease. It’s increasing their risk of experiencing physical, emotional and financial abuse, according to a letter written by Laura Mosqueda, MD, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Duke Han, PhD, professor at the Keck School and primary investigator at the Han Research Lab.

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• NCEA COVID-19 Tuesday Tips

  Our COVID-19 Tuesday Tips provide useful information, resources, and practical tips to consider to remain socially connected with older adults while practicing physical distancing.

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• COVID-19: How to Speak With Your Parents About the Pandemic

  Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Laura Mosqueda, MD, and clinical psychologist Dr. Bonnie Olsen hold a candid conversation about how adult children can speak with their parents about COVID-19 and social distancing.

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• Medical Professionals Virtually Connect with Patients Using ‘Telemedicine’

  On March 26, Inside Edition interviewed Theresa Sivers Texeira, MSPA, PA-C, as she conducted a telemedicine appointment to highlight the boom of telemedicine offerings amid COVID-19 shutdowns and outbreaks.

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• Staying Connected During COVID-19

  Social Distancing, Self-Isolation, Quarantine, all good ideas to flatten the curve of the Corona virus. But if you are already a socially isolated older adult, already susceptible to fraud or abuse, we need you to be extra vigilant right now. There may be individuals who use this uncertain time as a means to defraud and frighten.

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• Causes and Consequences of Perceived Financial Exploitation in Older Adults

  Annie Nguyen, PhD shares several posters and presentations from the annual American Public Health Association Conference.

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