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The paper describes the roles of the Adult Protective Services and domestic violence services and discusses barriers to collaboration between the two service systems. It then presents promising practices of collaborative initiatives.

Noting the complex nature of abuse in later life, this document highlights the importance of coordination between adult protective services and domestic violence advocates. Also included are standard definitions of elder abuse, domestic violence, and abuse in later life. Case examples are presented to show the challenges and importance of clearly defining abuse in later life.

This brief document describes why and how healthcare providers should and can assess for reproductive coercion, and how to follow up when reproductive control is identified.

This community-informed research project explores the views and documents the experiences of young Latinas in diverse California regions regarding reproductive and sexual health concerns in order to showcase the day-to-day implications that such policies have among youth in our communities.

Abstract: "Women who have experienced intimate partner violence are consistently found to have poor sexual and reproductive health when compared to non-abused women, but the mechanisms through which such associations occur are inadequately defined (Coker, 2007). Through face-to-face, semi-structured in-depth interviews, we gathered full reproductive histories of 71 women aged 18-49 with a history of IPV recruited from a family planning clinic, an abortion clinic and a domestic violence shelter in the United States.