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The Rosalie Wolf Memorial Lecture — abuse-free care in a world of age-friendly health systems
Author(s)	Terry Fulmer
Journal title	Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, vol 30, no 3, March-July 2018
Publisher	Taylor and Francis, March-July 2018
Pages	pp 167-175
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Health services ; Family care ; Ill health ; Terminal care ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; United States of America.
Annotation	The author is President of the John A Hartford Foundation (JAHF) in New York City, which was founded in 1929 and dedicated to improving older people's care, including eradicating all forms of elder mistreatment. The Foundation allows serious gaps in older people's quality of care to be identified, also to take action through grantmaking, convening and using strategies and tactics that spread best geriatric care models and practice. Under current strategic initiatives, the JAHF has three main areas of emphasis, which the author describes: age-friendly health systems; support for family caregivers; and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. When there are failures in any of these three systems, the likelihood of elder mistreatment increases proportionately. He concludes that it is "time for an abuse-free society and age-friendly health systems". (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-180525248 A
Classmark	L: P6:SJ: CH: LV: TOB: 7T
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