Older Adults Health

Seventy-seven million baby boomers are aging and people 85 and older, the fastest growing segment of the population, are disproportionately women. These demographic trends have significant implications for victimization, safety, suffering, health, and well-being of tens of millions of older Americans.

• Through advocacy and education, the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL) works everyday to improve victim safety, increase abuser accountability, expand coordinated community response, and ultimately, put an end to abuse in later life. For a list of resources to help you respond go to: http://www.ncall.us/
• Weill Cornell Medical College
• UCI Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse
• National Center on Elder Abuse

For more information tools and resources on sexual assault please see following:

• National Sexual Violence Resource Center
• Pennsylvania coalition Against Rape
• Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
• International Association of Forensic Nurses
  

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