Later Life Intimate Partner Violence Learning Collaborative
Issue to Address
Intimate partner violence (IPV) in later life is often undetected and inappropriately addressed by healthcare providers, social service providers and domestic violence partners. This is in part due to misconceptions and the complexity of elder mistreatment.
Purpose
The purpose of the LLIPV Learning Collaborative is to bring together relevant cross-sector partners to review the various forms of older adult abuse, discuss approaches for the successful implementation of strategies for advancing system wide policies and practices that support the ending of silos and the removing of barriers to timely access and age friendly services for older victim-survivors of domestic abuse in later life.
Objectives:
Understand what is and what is not Later Life Intimate Partner Violence
Identify ways the DV and Aging arenas can work more collaboratively to meet the needs of older adults.
Identify/adapt Later Life Intimate Partner Violence screening tools
Identify /develop age and culturally appropriate person-centered approaches to address and prevent older adults in harmful or unsafe relationships
Identify strategies for the building of sustainable partnerships between health centers, hospitals, community-based domestic violence programs, senior centers, and other Aging Network and social service providers.
The Learning Collaborative meets Ad-hoc.
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The Later Life Intimate Partner Violence Learning Collaborative includes the following LAACHA members:
