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Safeguarding Seniors
Gain the skills to recognize, report, and prevent older adult abuse. This elder abuse training for healthcare professionals covers risk factors, warning signs, reporting protocols, and prevention strategies to protect seniors’ safety and dignity.
Recognize, report, and prevent elder abuse with practical strategies to protect older adults from harm.
Older adult abuse, also known as elder abuse, is a serious, often hidden issue that threatens the safety, dignity, and well-being of vulnerable seniors worldwide. This course provides healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to recognize, report, and help prevent abuse in older adults. Learners will examine the different types of abuse, identify risk factors and early warning signs, and apply reporting protocols aligned with legal and ethical standards. Practical strategies and real-world examples equip participants to respond effectively, support victims, and promote prevention within clinical and community settings. By completing this course, you will be better prepared to safeguard older adults from harm and uphold their right to a safe and respectful quality of life.
At the completion of this activity, healthcare providers will be able to:
- Define terms relevant to the issue of older adult abuse.
- Analyze the risk factors for older adult abuse in both victims and perpetrators.
- Identify the signs and symptoms of older adult abuse across physical, emotional, financial, and neglect-related domains.
- Describe the interprofessional process for reporting older adult abuse according to legal and institutional requirements.
- Identify barriers to reporting older adult abuse.
- Discuss interventions for the treatment and prevention of older adult abuse.
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Accreditations
This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.
ACCME
Accredited for physician continuing medical education
ANCC
Accredited for nursing continuing education
ASWB
Accredited for social work continuing education
Additional Information
- Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
- Instant certificate generation upon course completion
- Credits accepted for license renewal
- Meets state requirements for continuing education
Course Faculty
Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.
Sarah Stetina
Certified nurse‑midwife with clinical expertise in obstetrics, postpartum care, and menopause management.
Disclosure
Partners requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
- Adrianne Avillion, D.Ed., RN
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose - Holly Krymis, LCSW, LMSW, NBC-HWC
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
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Combined 27+ years of direct patient care experience with diverse HIV populations in various healthcare settings.
Education Focus
Dedicated to training healthcare professionals and have developed evidence-based curricula for stigma reduction.
Patient Advocacy
Strong advocates for patient-centered care and have worked extensively with HIV advocacy organizations.
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Requirements & Compliance
This course meets your continuing education requirements across multiple states and professions, ensuring you stay compliant with the latest regulations.
Requirements
This course is regularly updated to ensure compliance with current state and federal requirements.
Accreditations
ACCME
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
ANCC
American Nurses Credentialing Center
ASWB
Association of Social Work Boards
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