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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Australas J Ageing. 2013 Jan 24;32(1):2–7. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2012.00649.x

Table1.

Key Components of the Community Response Plan

Areas of Need Action Steps
Short-term Mid-term Long-term
Direct Services

  • Add additional resources for older adults to WRC Information and Referral system

  • Distribute newly developed education material about IPV in late life to older adult groups and victims

  • Provide a support group at the WRC specifically for older adult victims

  • Offer senior-to-senior hotline hours, when older trained volunteers would staff the WRC hotline

  • Fund WRC staff member to serve as a liaison with other community agencies serving older adults

  • Provide transportation services to and from appointments and groups for older adults

  • Fund a full-time WRC staff member to coordinate programs/service and outreach specific to older adult victims

  • Provide IPV counseling and advocacy services in community and home settings when safe and appropriate
WRC Programs

  • Provide awareness presentations to older adult groups in the community

  • Develop safety planning materials specific to the needs of older adult victims

  • Target volunteer recruitment efforts and train volunteers to respond to older adult callers

  • Expand trainings on screening to more medical professionals in our community

  • Remodel shelter to create a room or suite for older victims that is private and quiet

  • Develop a multi-disciplinary intervention team to work with victims who must or choose to remain in their homes

  • Develop contracts and funding for assisted living facilities and long-term care facilities to provide emergency and/or longer-term shelter for victims
NRV Community

  • Improve communication of information related to suspicions of IPV between agency programs

  • Display educational and awareness materials on IPV in prominent and accessible places in agencies serving older adults

  • Institutionalize training on IPV into orientation for direct service providers

  • Develop a collaborative service agreement for multi-agency cooperation in complex cases involving older adults experiencing IPV

  • Develop IPV prevention education for youth on healthy relationships

  • Fund a full-time staff member at the Agency on Aging as a specialist, advocate and liaison for IPV victims

  • Establish regional elder abuse multidisciplinary team to staff complex cases involving IPV