The Elder Justice Roadmap

Coordination: All networks providing services to older victims should coordinate to reduce
fragmentation and improve person-centered services to meet older victims’ needs.
Promising and innovative programs: We need to identify and evaluate promising and
innovative practices and create programs tailored to older victims. If effective, those programs
should be replicated.
“Patient-centered medical home": The “patient-centered medical home” is a health care
concept developed to contain costs and provide comprehensive, coordinated patient-centered care
wherever the patient is. Medical home health care providers should be trained to recognize and
respond to elder abuse, and the patient-centered medical home model should incorporate
measures to prevent and respond to elder abuse.
Victim services: Victim services providers (e.g., domestic violence and sexual assault programs,
systems-based advocacy programs [in courts, law enforcement and prosecution offices], and
VOCA-funded programs) must do more to tailor and offer services to older adults. National and
state coalitions must address the needs of older victims in training and technical assistance. We
need to encourage communication and education between existing victim services and entities
responding to elder abuse.
The Elder Justice Roadmap–Appendices 44