MILWAUKEE _ The Helen Bader School of Social Welfare鈥檚 Office of Applied Gerontology is presenting the forum 鈥淥lder Adults & Hoarding: Where Do We Go From Here鈥� ahead of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15. Hoarding is a compulsion to accumulate items that might often be considered useless or worthless by others, accompanied by an inability to discard the items without distress.
About 1 in 10 of Americans ages 65 and older experience elder abuse, neglect or exploitation, according to the . 51猎奇 professor Colleen Galambos, the Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology, says neglect is a form of elder abuse, and that hoarding is considered a form of self-neglect.
When: Thursday, June 13, from 8:30 a.m.-noon
Where: Bader Philanthropies, Inc., 3300 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53213
Presenter: Carla Alejo, director, In-Home Support Services and the Hoarding Intervention and Treatment Program, Catholic Charities Milwaukee
Panelists: Mark Silverman, attorney, Legal Action of Wisconsin; Elizabeth Johnson, in-home therapist, Hoarding Intervention and Treatment Program, Catholic Charities Milwaukee; Liz Oettiker, Elder Abuse Program
coordinator, Milwaukee County Department on Aging