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In New York City, another hospital-based team was formed at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1998. This team serves hospitalized victims and assists them with counseling and other supportive services (Kahan & Paris, 2003). In 1995, a geriatric medicine interdisciplinary team at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, began collaborating with the APS of Texas and later became know as the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute (Dyer, Hyman, Pavlik, Murphy, & Gleason, 1999). Also in the mid-1990s, a similar team was established at the University of California, Irvine, called the Vulnerable Adult Specialist Team.

If Denise refused to sign it over to him, he would beat her and lock her in a closet. On more than one occasion, he left her in the closet for more than 24 hours. An Example of Homicide/Suicide Bennie and June had been married for almost 50 years. Neighbors and friends described them as a loving couple who had “had their share of problems” over the years, usually when they had been drinking. They had one son, Jim, who lived nearby. After calling his parents repeatedly for several days, Jim went to their home and found June lying in bed in a pool of blood.

A multidisciplinary response is also beneficial in facility cases. Because LTCF administrators generally have a sense of when they will be surveyed and thus can prepare, a few states have developed collaborative projects such as Florida’s “Operation Spot Check” or California’s “Operation Guardian” to conduct random, unannounced inspections of LTCF. As is evident in the discussion in this chapter, the elder abuse field is growing, and research and programming are emerging. The naming and identifying of elder abuse are relatively recent occurrences.

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