看片视频 Cares: Caregiving and the Risk of Older Adult Mistreatment
Join us on December 2 at noon for the next webcast in our weekly series, 看片视频 Cares, designed to support informal caregivers. During candid, 30-minute interviews with leading experts, Claire Webster, Alzheimer Care Consultant and Founder of the 看片视频 Dementia Education Program, will explore topics related to caring for a loved one with dementia.
Caregiving and the Risk of Older Adult Mistreatment
Melanie Couture, PhD, is a researcher at the Center for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREG脡S) and scientific lead of the Health Interventions and Technology Assessment Unit of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal. She is also Affiliate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Universit茅 de Sherbrooke. She co-leads three governmental mandates to develop training and other initiatives in Quebec on older adult mistreatment.
Dr. Couture will answer questions about elder abuse and will provide an overview on how often it happens, the factors that underlie it and the impact that COVID-19 is having on it. She will also discuss tools to identify and reduce mistreatment in caregiving situations.
This free webcast is open to all. We would like to thank the Zeller Family Foundation for sponsoring this episode of 看片视频 Cares.
聽beginning at 12:00 pm EST on Wednesday, December 2 to join us live, or watch the recording afterwards.