Elder Abuse Prevention
Lisa Nerenberg has been
actively involved in the field of elder abuse prevention since 1983. For
sixteen years, she directed
the San Francisco Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention, which piloted
such widely replicated services as elder abuse multidisciplinary teams,
support
groups and counseling for victims, and culturally-specifically outreach.
Her special interests and areas of expertise include:
- financial exploitation
- identity theft
- cognitive impairment and undue influence
- caregiving issues
- cultural factors
- gender issues in elder abuse
Nerenberg has provided consultation and technical assistance to local,
state, and national organizations across the US and Canada. She coordinated
the affiliate program of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder
Abuse and authored a series of sixteen technical assistance manuals for
the National Center on Elder Abuse that focus on program development, coalition
building, and the role of diverse disciplines in abuse prevention.
She has worked with researchers to design and carry out practice-focused
research, authored numerous articles and chapters, trained thousands of
professionals, and designed comprehensive curricula for law enforcement,
adult protective service, medical, and long term care professionals. She
has testified before Congressional committees, served on governmental advisory
panels, and spearheaded local, state, and national initiatives to improve
society’s response to the problem. She has delivered keynote addresses,
moderated panels, and made presentations at hundreds of professional forums.
“Protecting society’s vulnerable is a moral and
civic duty that can only be accomplished by breaking down barriers between
professional disciplines, mobilizing communities to get involved, and
creating comprehensive and coherent policy. Among our greatest challenges
as a nation today is making America a safe place to grow old.” —Lisa Nerenberg
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