ArticleJoint Commission journal on quality and patient safety2018
Improving Quality of Care in Hospitals for Victims of Elder Mistreatment: Development of the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team.
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- Screening and Interventions for Elder Mistreatment: Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 Systematic Review.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Vulnerable Elder Protection Team: Initial experience of an emergency department-based interdisciplinary elder abuse program.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Bringing Advances in Elder Abuse Research Methodology and Theory to Evaluation of Interventions.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2021Article
- A Scoping Review of Current Social Emergency Medicine Research.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2021Article
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- Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Elder Mistreatment and Response in New York City: Initial Lessons.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2020Article
- Screening for elder mistreatment in emergency departments: current progress and recommendations for next steps.Journal of elder abuse & neglect · 2020Article
- Violence In Older Adults: Scope, Impact, Challenges, And Strategies For Prevention.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2019Article
- Identifying and Initiating Intervention for Elder Abuse and Neglect in the Emergency Department.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2018Review
- Strategies for dissemination of ED/hospital elder mistreatment response team model.Journal of elder abuse & neglectArticle
- Developing a tool to assess and monitor institutional readiness to address elder mistreatment in hospital emergency departments.Journal of elder abuse & neglectReview
- Research priorities for elder abuse screening and intervention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network scoping review and consensus statement.Journal of elder abuse & neglectArticle
- Examining ethical issues that arise in providing ED/hospital care for patients experiencing elder mistreatment and approaches to address them.Journal of elder abuse & neglectArticle
- Emergency department and hospital-based programs responding to elder mistreatment: developing consensus about an idea whose time has come.Journal of elder abuse & neglectArticle
- Reliability of the longitudinal experts all data (LEAD) methodology for determining the presence of elder mistreatment.Journal of elder abuse & neglectArticle
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Abstract
problem definitionHospitals have an opportunity to improve the quality of care provided to a particularly vulnerable population: victims of elder mistreatment. Despite this, no programs to prevent or stop elder abuse in the acute care hospital have been reported. An innovative, multidisciplinary emergency department (ED)-based intervention for elder abuse victims, the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team (VEPT), was developed at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York City). APPROACH: The VEPT is a consultation service available 24 hours a day/7 days a week to improve identification, comprehensive assessment, and treatment for potential victims of elder abuse or neglect. All ED providers have been trained on how to recognize signs of elder mistreatment. Any provider can activate the VEPT via a single page/telephone call, which triggers the VEPT's often time-consuming, complex assessment of the potential mistreatment victim. First, the ED social worker on duty performs the initial bedside assessment and separately interviews the potential perpetrator and/or caregiver. He or she then contacts the on-call VEPT medical provider to discuss next steps and other team members' potential involvement. For patients admitted to the hospital, the VEPT connects with the inpatient social workers and medical team to ensure appropriate follow-up and care planning. NEXT STEPS/PLANNED EVALUATION: The VEPT program was launched in April 2017 after comprehensive training. Its impact will be measured by tracking the short-term and long-term mistreatment-related outcomes, as well as medical, mental health, functional, psychosocial, and legal outcomes of the vulnerable ED patients for whom the team provides care.
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