COURSE CATEGORY
Professional Skills
Screening elder abuse for older clients
Western Australia Customers
Please note this course has not been updated in the last twelve months and does not satisfy the requirements for CPD in WA.
Published on 4 June 2021
This course contains graphic pictures of elder abuse and violence which may be distressing. Viewer discretion is advised.
Elder abuse refers to any intentional or unintentional behaviour pattern that results in psychological, financial, physical or social harm to a person aged over 65 years leading to poor health outcomes, including distress, morbidity and mortality. As we are a profession with a higher standard of care, it is important for solicitors to be across triggers that help us identify signs of elder abuse when dealing with older clients.
Join Professor Susan Kurrle, Geriatrician and Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney for a one-hour course that will cover:
- Elder mistreatment and mental health – how psychological abuse can render the person with feelings of marginality, vulnerability and incompetence.
- The social perception of mistreatment and adaptation in later life
- Development of elder abuse awareness in a social, legal and medical context
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit.
TARGET AUDIENCE
All legal practitioners
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Video-based interactive module
Professor Susan Kurrle
Geriatrician and Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Professor Susan Kurrle was awarded the NHMRC grant to lead the $25 million NHMRC Partnership Centre on Dealing with Cognitive and Related Functional Decline in Older People (NHMRC 9100000, CDPC) in 2012. She and her Directorate team at the University of Sydney coordinate the CDPC teams of consumers, clinicians, health and aged care providers, and researchers across Australia. The CDPC focusses on research and implementation projects dealing particularly with the care aspect of dementia and related functional decline and has funded 32 research and implementation projects across Australia through partnership with the NHMRC, Dementia Australia, Brightwater Care Group, HammondCare, and Helping Hand Aged Care.
