of elder abuse cases are reported to the police, but doormen are helping to eradicate this problem and receiving the training to do it, too. Joy Solomon, director of the Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention in the Bronx, is leading the training seminars to teach doormen to spot elder abuse.
"Doormen know everything that's going on," Joy Solomon said before conducting a training session for doormen, porters and other apartment workers, fittingly held over the din of whirring dryers in the laundry room of a Manhattan building. "They know who's going in, who's going out. They have access
Date: Jan 21, 2014
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Aging America: Shelters being offered as abuse of elderly grows along with ...
The price for not getting ahead of the problem and preventing abuse of people who would otherwise be healthy and financially stable will be high, warned Joy Solomon, a former Manhattan assistant prosecutor who helped pioneer elder abuse shelters with the Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention, w