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The multidisciplinary elder mistreatment response team will be composed of a <br />geriatrician, an adult/geriatric nurse practitioner, a geriatric social worker and <br />geropsychiatrist. This team will be on call and available to assist Orange county APS <br />social workers in the assessment and intervention of elder mistreatment cases in which <br />an elder's cognitive or mistreatment status is unclear, or the elder is in imminent danger. <br />Staff/ConsuitantNolunteer & Cooperative Relationships: <br />Dr. Margaret F. Hudson, PhD, RN, is chair of the coalition and an associate <br />professor at the School of Nursing, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill_ She <br />will be the director of the project She has some 30 years of nursing experience in <br />caring for older adults in various settings (the last 27 in North Carolina), has been <br />conducting research on elder mistreatment in North Carolina since 1983, and has <br />numerous publications on the topic. Since 1994 she has had bw studies on elder abuse <br />funded by the National Institute on Aging. She will be ably assisted by the other <br />professionals who are members of the coalition. <br />This action plan will be implemented by the 20 members of the Orange County <br />Elder Mistreatment Coalition, all of whom are experienced and practicing professionals. <br />The members represent 8 professional disciplines and 14 different local and state <br />agencies and organizations. (See the attached list of members and letters of agency <br />support-) <br />Time Line: <br />The proposed time frame for implementing the action plan is as follows: <br />August 2000 - prepare, compile and print the training and community education <br />materials. <br />September & October 2000 - plan the specific training content for each of the <br />targeted groups, prepare the coalition members to do the training, <br />and prepare the emergency response team members.