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Abstract: 

This research review summarizes the major findings and conclusions of “Elder Mistreatment: Priorities for Consideration by the White House Conference on Aging” by Karl Pillemer, Marie-Therese Connolly, Risa Breckman, Nathan Spreng, & Mark S. Lachs a piece designed to leverage the selection of “elder financial exploitation, abuse, and neglect” as one of the four Conference priority topics, and “Elder Abuse in Residential Long-Term Care: An Update to the 2003 National Research Council Report” by Nicholas Castle, Jamie C. Ferguson- Rome, & Jeanne A. Teresi seeks to determine what lessons were learned during the decade following the 2003 National Research Council report on elder abuse in long-term care.

Keywords: Elder Justice Roadmap; near absence of empirically tested elder mistreatment interventions; practice-focused research agenda; resident-to-resident abuse; harmonizing qualitative interdisciplinary definitions of elder abuse

Affiliations:  1: New Mexico Deputy Chief Public Defender.