Weill Cornell Medicine shared on LinkedIn:
“Weill Cornell Medicine has received a two-year, $1.4 million federal grant to develop a national data infrastructure aimed at better understanding the health effects of elder mistreatment. The data could also shape ways to protect vulnerable older adults.
Each year, as many as 7 million adults in the United States aged 60 and older face mistreatment, including abuse, neglect or exploitation. Millions more experience self-neglect.
The grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) will support researchers in developing ACLink, a privacy-preserving research infrastructure that links records from state Adult Protective Services (APS) agencies with administrative Medicare and Medicaid claims data.
‘With ACLink, we’ll be able to examine how older adults experiencing mistreatment interact with the healthcare system before and after they come to the attention of Adult Protective Services, including their healthcare trajectories. This could help us identify missed opportunities to recognize mistreatment and intervene earlier,’ said Tony Rosen, of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, who is leading the research with Dr. Yongkang Zhang and Dr. Laura Keohane of Vanderbilt University.”
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