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ELDER ABUSE:

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A GLOBAL CONCERN 7TH WORLD CONFERENCE

OF THEINTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE (INPEA)

IN COMMORATION OF THE 7TH WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY (WEAAD)

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ZIVOT 90 THEATRE, KAROLINY SVETLE 18, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLICMAY 28, 2012

When World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) was launched by INPEA seven years ago, it definitely

An invitation to attendwas an idea whose time had come. WEAAD has caught the imagination of and has been embraced by NGOs, government agencies and individuals in many countries.

In 2008, INPEA partnered with the Canadian Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse to host a very successful 2-day conference in Ottawa, to mark WEAAD. In 2009 the official INPEA WEAAD event was held in Paris, in partnership with ALMA, the French national elder abuse prevention organization. It took place just prior to the World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. In 2011 the conference was held in London, hosted by INPEA and Action on Elder Abuse, the major elder abuse organization in Great Britain and six partner organizations that work with older people. This year INPEA and ZIVOT 90 are partnering to host an outstanding international event that will take place in

An invitation to attendPrague, Czech Republic the day before and during the 11th Global Conference of the International Federation of Ageing (IFA).

Registration fee (coffee breaks & lunch included):INPEA or ZIVOT 90 members $29US or 569CZK or 21€ Non-members $53US or 1040CZK or 37€

If you join INPEA or ZIVOT 90, you can take advantage of the reduced INPEA conference fee and register at a reduced fee for the IFA conference. To join INPEA & to register visit www.inpea.net The code to use in claiming reduced registration at IFA conference for INPEA members is 201204

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PROGRAM *MAY 28, 20128:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Welcome and IntroductionGloria Gutman, President INPEA (Canada)Jan Lorman, ZIVOT 90 (Czech Republic)

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PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING ELDER MALTREATMENT IN THE WHO EUROPEAN REGIONDinesh Sethi, MSc MD MRCP FFPH

Programme Manager (a.i) Violence and Injury Prevention WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagan, Denmark

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break & Networking

10:45-12:00 Symposium 1 – Financial Abuse Detection and Prevention

An invitation to attend Amanda Phelan (Ireland) – Understanding elder financial abuse: exploring promising

strategies to counteract the problem.

Don Blanding and Robert Roush (USA) – Training health care professionals to screen their older patients for vulnerability to financial exploitation

Mary Gilhooly, Miranda Davies, Ken Gilhooly, Prescilla Harries & Deborah Cairns (UK) - Framing the detection of elder financial abuse as bystander intervention: case features determining certainty that abuse is taking place and likelihood of taking action

12:00-1:00 Lunch & Regional Highlights – Part 1

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1:00-2:15 Symposium 2 – Defining and Measuring Abuse and Neglect in the Community

Lynn McDonald (Canada) – Precursors to a national prevalence study in Canada: objectives and design

Sandi Hirst (Canada) – Why theory matters Ariela Lowenstein (Israel) – The challenge of international comparison

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2:15-3:15 Rosalie S. Wolf Memorial Lecture

RECONSIDERING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MEN AS ELDER ABUSE PERPETRATORS AND MEN AS ELDER ABUSE VICTIMS: GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE

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Jordan I. Kosberg, Ph.D., ACSW –Recipient Rosalie Wolf International Award 2011Visiting Professor, School of Social Work, New Mexico Highlands University and

Adjunct Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of New Mexico.

3:15-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-4:45 Symposium 3 – Detecting, Addressing and Preventing Elder Abuse in Residential Care Facilities

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affecting elders’ maltreatment in long-term care facilities Lynn McDonald & Marie Beaulieu (Canada) – Measuring abuse and neglect in the

institution: A pilot study of a national prevalence study in Canada. Bridget Penhale (UK) – TBA

4:45-5:45 Symposium 4 – Public Education, Research and Inter-organization Collaboration

Marie Beaulieu (Canada)

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respond to elder abuse Susan Somers (USA) The Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People

5:45-6:45 Reception and Regional Highlights – Part 2

Oceania- Wayne Fielding (Australia)Africa – TBA North America – Marie Beaulieu (Canada)

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*Program subject to change

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Dinesh Sethi

Dinesh Sethi MSc MD MRCP FFPH is Manager (a.i) of the Violence and Injury Prevention Program at the World Health Organization’s, (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. Dr. Sethi read medicine at Liverpool University and worked in internal medicine and the trained in public health at the London School of

An invitation to attendTropical Medicine and the London Deanery. Before joining WHO he worked as a Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Public Health in London. In the past he has conducted surveys of injuries in refugees in Uganda, evaluated the cost-effectiveness of trauma services in Malaysia, and on health professionals’ response to domestic violence in London. His interests include injury surveillance, surveys of injury and violence in the community and advocating for injury and violence prevention.

Jordan Kosberg

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In June, 2010, Jordan I. Kosberg, Ph.D., ACSW, retired from the School of Social at The University of Alabama (UA) as Endowed Chair of Social Work and was awarded Professor Emeritus status. He, and his wife Juanita Garcia, relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he is a Visiting Professor in the School of Social Work at New Mexico Highlands University and Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics at the University

of New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. at The University of Chicago and both M.S.S.W. and B.S.

An invitation to attenddegrees at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Among other positions, he has been The Philip S. Fisher Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, and Director of the School’s Center for Applied Family Studies. Professor Kosberg has taught at universities in Florida, Ohio, and California, held visiting professorships in China, Hong Kong, Australia, and Israel, and was named the TOWER Fellow for the New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing in 2002. He is a Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), and was awarded the Career Achievement Award in 2000 by the Association for Gerontology in Social Work Education (AGE-SW). As a career-long gerontological social work educator and research, he has edited or co-edited seven books, and

An invitation to attendauthored or co-authored 25 book chapters and over 100 journal articles. He is the current U.S. Representative to the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA).