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Cultural Considerations

“We need to serve older Black adults in ways that aren’t injurious to their family – we need to do what they want, provide options.” – Antonia Norton, Director, The Asha Project, Milwaukee, WI, quoted in Collaborating for Justice for Older African Americans

The experience of abuse in later life, the risk and protective factors, and the power and control dynamics may vary across and within cultures, as well as by individuals. Further, the intersectional identities of older survivors impact their lives and their ability to access services designed for their needs. This section offers resources that focus on understanding elder abuse in different cultural groups and provides some information on ways to increase access to accessible, culturally relevant, and trauma-informed services and resource for older victims who have been harmed by abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Culturally specific services are those that are created for, designed by, and led by the community they intend to serve. Services should reflect the cultural values, norms, expectations, and attitudes of the group served.

What does cultural competency mean and why should I care?

These training slides can be used by advocates to understand the three spheres of culture (of domestic violence and gender inequality, of familial and community values and norms, and of systems) and provide survivor-centered services to survivors.

Elder Abuse in Communities of Color

This "Facts & Stats Collection" paper describes specific issues and distinguishing dynamics that confront older women of color, highlighting types of abuse and warning signs. Resources for additional information are provided.

Historical Trauma

This video offers an overview of impact of historical trauma on older survivors of abuse.

Understanding Culture and Language: Providing Culturally Responsive Services

This webinar engages participants in learning to recognize and respect individual cultural differences regarding language and communication as important to working in a sensitive and effective manner with survivors with limited English proficiency (LEP). This webinar examines the challenges LEP survivors encounter while seeking to access services because of limited culturally and linguistically responsive systems of help.
African American

The National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life's Collaborating for Justice for Older African Americans guide aims to equip professionals working with older adults to build stronger and more equitable collaborations with African American community-based and culturally-specific programs. Through these collaborations, older African Americans impacted by elder abuse will have greater access to effective and culturally responsive services and supports.

How can mainstream advocates and domestic violence programs enhance services and supports to older African American survivors?

Older African Americans experience crime and violence at the intersection of race, age, class and other identities. In the November 2020 TA Question of the Month, Juanita Davis explains how mainstream advocates and programs can do the vital work of building literacy about the history of privilege, the impact of racism on the lived experiences of African Americans and the impact of intersecting oppressions in the context of domestic violence.

Increasing Access to Healing Services and Just Outcomes for Older African American Crime Survivors: A Toolkit for Enhancing Critical Knowledge and Informing Action within the Crime Victim Assistance Field

Older African Americans experience crime and violence at the intersections of race, age, class, and other identities. This toolkit offers victim services providers and criminal justice systems stakeholders information and practical strategies to enhance their capacity to identify, reach, and serve older African American victims.

Collaborating for Justice for Older African Americans: A Guide for Elder Justice Teams to Build Equitable Partnerships with Culturally-Specific Organizations

This guide aims to equip professionals working with older adults to build stronger and more equitable collaborations with African American community-based and culturally-specific programs. Through these collaborations, older African Americans impacted by elder abuse will have greater access to effective and culturally responsive services and supports
AAPI

Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence

This document is an illustration describing the violence that may happen throughout the lives of Asian and Pacific Islander women during the life stages of infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood and later life.

Mistreatment of Chinese Elders

This research brief synthesizes the latest available information and research relating to the mistreatment of Chinese older adults living in the United States, providing insight into general cultural beliefs, views, norms, of Chinese immigrant communities and how they relate to and influence elder mistreatment.

Mistreatment of Korean Elders

This research brief synthesizes the latest available information and research relating to the mistreatment of Korean older adults living in the United States, providing insight into general cultural beliefs, views, norms, of Korean immigrant communities and how they relate to and influence elder mistreatment.
Disabilities

Mistreatment of Adults with Disabilities

This research brief synthesizes the latest available information and research relating to the mistreatment of adults with disabilities (AWD). This brief addresses the intersection of AWD and elder mistreatment.

Supporting Crime Victims with Disabilities Online Training Toolkit

This toolkit was designed to provide comprehensive and culturally responsive informational and educational resources, tools, videos, and examples of best practices for law enforcement, forensic interviewers, victim advocates, and others to prepare them to effectively respond to victims of crime with disabilities across the lifespan.

Promising Practices for Serving Domestic Violence Survivors with Disabilities

This webinar featured a panel of experts who explored the unique barriers that people with disabilities have to navigate when seeking healing and the strategies that advocates employ to proactively remove those barriers. Specifically, they explored the civil-legal needs of survivors with disabilities, the needs of survivors who acquire a disability through domestic violence, and the unique needs of Deaf survivors.
Deaf/DeafBlind

Supporting Deaf & DeafBlind Survivors

This is a series of videos about Deaf and DeafBlind culture, best practices for working with Deaf and DeafBlind survivors, and how to find qualified interpreters. There is also a panel discussion highlighting key factors that contributed to a successful partnership between a hearing and Deaf organization.

Supporting Black Deaf Survivors

Black deaf survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence often have to navigate a web of barriers to accessing healing services. This webinar features speakers from DAWN, a Deaf community-based organization, on their unique approach to meeting the needs of Black deaf survivors.
Latin@

Abuse Among Latin@ Elders

This fact sheet from Esperanza United outlines the scope and risk and protective factors of elder abuse in Latin@ communities.

Mistreatment of Latinx Older Adults

This research brief synthesizes the latest available information and research relating to the mistreatment of Latinx older adults, providing insight into general cultural beliefs, views, norms, of Latinx communities and how they relate to and influence elder mistreatment.
Indigenous
LGBTQIA+

Gen Silent is the critically-acclaimed documentary from filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses—their entire lives in order to survive in the care system. Their surprising decisions are captured through intimate access to their day-to-day lives over the course of a year.

Inclusive Services for LGBT Older Adults: A Practical Guide To Creating Welcoming Agencies

Aging service providers should be aware that the effects of a lifetime of stigma, discrimination, rejection and ridicule puts LGBT older adults at greater risk for physical and mental illnesses. This publication highlights the importance of cultural sensitivity when working with LGBT older adults and describes the barriers faced by older persons in seeking help for abuse, working with law enforcement, and seeking court protections.