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Please join us for our second installment of the 2014-2015 Brown Bag Speaker Series, featuring a presentation by Dr. Kerry Burnight, titled “The Medical Forensic Aspects of Elder Abuse.”
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. No RSVP necessary.
Date:
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Time:
12-:00 – 1:00pm
Location:
University of California, Irvine campus
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, room 1517
Abstract:
In the United States, an elderly person is abused every five seconds. The phenomenon of elder abuse has been termed “the hidden problem,” given the large discrepancy between instances of elder abuse and reported cases of elder abuse. In Orange County, 800 cases are reported each month. Yet for every case that is reported, 23 go undetected. This presentation will discuss the risk factors for elder abuse and the medical forensic aspects of elder abuse. Research findings from the Elder Abuse Forensic Center will be reviewed.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Kerry Burnight is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Southern California in Gerontology in 1996. Burnight is the Director of the nation’s first Elder Abuse Forensic Center, where she takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding elder abuse. Her research focuses on the medical forensic aspects of elder abuse and the development of new models for understanding elder abuse. She is also the founder and President/CEO of Ageless Alliance, a national social justice movement that aims to bring together people of all ages for the dignity, autonomy, and safety of older adults. Burnight has received several prestigious awards, including the 2006 Rising Start of Medicine Award from Woman Sage and the 2011 Crime Victims Service Innovation Award from the U.S. Department of Justice. She has also been a featured speaker on the Dr. Phil Show where she discussed her research on elder abuse.
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