Elder Abuse and Neglect and Financial Exploitation of the Elderly

"Elder Abuse and Neglect and Financial Exploitation: Adult Protective Services Law, Criminal Laws, and Civil Remedies"
Josephine Gittler, JD, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law
Director, National Health Law and Policy Resource Center
University of Iowa College of Law

"Elder Abuse and Neglect and Financial Exploitation: Consumer Protection Laws"
Katherine M. Porter, JD, Professor of Law
University of California Irvine School of Law

Colloquium Readings-Adult Protective Services Law, Criminal Laws, and Civil Remedies

1. Justice for All:  Ending Elder Abuse, Neglect and Financial Exploitation, 112th Cong. (2011) (statement of Marie-Therese Connolly, Seniro Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director, Life Long Justice.
2. Lori A. Stiegel et al., “The Brooke Astor Case:  An Appalling Set of Circumstances,” ABA COMM’N ON LAW AND AGING (2011).
3. Josephine Gittler, Governmental Efforts to Improve Quality of Care for Nursing Home Residents and to Protect Them from Mistreatment:  A Survey of Federal and State Law. 1 RESEARCH IN GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING 264, (2008)
4. Iowa Code Chapter 235B, 235E, (2012).

Colloquium Readings-Consumer Protection Laws

1. Measurement Model of Older Adult Financial Exploitation
2. Consumer Protection Laws
3. How Banks, Marketers Aid Scams (The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2009)
4. Financial Abuse of Elderly People vs. Other Forms of Elder Abuse: Assessing Their Dynamics, Risk Factors, and Society’s Response

Colloquium Presentations-Consumer Protection Laws

1. Financial-Abuse
2. Video