ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2014
"My older clients fall through every crack in the system": geriatrics knowledge of legal professionals.
Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Intersecting Effects of Lifetime Experiences of Homelessness and Incarceration on Cognitive Aging and Dementia Risk Factors in the United States.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Dementia care pathways in prisons - a comprehensive scoping review.Health & justice · 2024Article
- The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Incarcerated Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- The growing geriatric prison population: A dire public health consequence of mass incarceration.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Cognition and Incarceration: Cognitive Impairment and Its Associated Outcomes in Older Adults in Jail.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018Article
- Mobilizing cross-sector community partnerships to address the needs of criminal justice-involved older adults: a framework for action.International journal of prisoner health · 2017Article
- Police on the front line of community geriatric health care: challenges and opportunities.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2014Article
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Abstract
With the number of older adult arrestees and prisoners increasing rapidly, legal professionals increasingly provide front-line identification and response to age-related health conditions (including cognitive and physical impairments) that may affect legal outcomes, such as the ability to participate in one's defense or stay safe in jail. The goals of this study were to assess the ability of legal professionals to recognize and respond to age-related conditions that could affect legal outcomes and to identify recommendations to address important knowledge gaps. This was a mixed quantitative-qualitative study. Legal professionals (N = 72) in the criminal justice system were surveyed to describe their demographic characteristics, expertise, and prior aging-related training and to inform the qualitative interview guide. Those surveyed included attorneys (district attorneys (25%), public defenders and legal advocates (58%)), judges (6%), and court-affiliated social workers (11%). In-depth qualitative interviews were then conducted with a subset of 10 legal professionals who worked with older adults at least weekly. Results from the surveys and interviews revealed knowledge deficits in four important areas: age-related health, identification of cognitive impairment, assessment of safety risk, and optimization of services upon release from jail. Four recommendations to close these gaps emerged: educate legal professionals about age-related health, train professionals to identify cognitive and sensory impairment, develop checklists to identify those at risk of poor health or safety, and improve knowledge of and access to transitional services for older adults. These findings suggest that geriatrics knowledge gaps of legal professionals exist that may contribute to adverse medical or legal outcomes for older adults involved in the criminal justice system and that partnerships between healthcare and legal professionals are needed to address these challenges.
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