Challenges Facing Older Adults

This colloquium will discuss the challenges facing older adults: mental health, financial capacity, and exploitation.
About this Event

This year’s annual Fall colloquium will focus on the challenges facing older adults. This event will bring together subject matter experts to discuss the domains of financial capacity with aging, elder abuse and undue influence targeting elders, reducing aggressive behaviors in persons with dementia, and mental health and aging.

Featured Presentations:

Assessing the Domains of Financial Capacity: A Person-Centered Approach - Peter Lichtenberg, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Director, Institute of Gerontology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University

When Bad Things Happen: Elder Abuse & Undue Influence Targeting Elders - Rebecca Morgan, Esq, Boston Asset Management Chair in Elder Law, Stetson University

A Person-Centered Approach to Reducing Aggressive Behaviors in Persons with Dementia - Victor Molinari, PhD, ABPP, Professor, USF School of Aging Studies

Q&A Moderator - William Haley, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, USF School of Aging Studies