What are E-MDTs?

The Elder Abuse Enhanced Multidisciplinary Team (E-MDT) Initiative in New York State brings together various systems and disciplines with unique resources and skills to form coordinated E-MDTs in each county. The E-MDT approach, delivered locally, provides improved and effective cross-system collaboration and specialized responses to elder abuse of older adults aged 60 and older. This includes responses for financial exploitation, physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect by others.

The Elder Abuse E-MDT Initiative is implemented in New York State through a network of eleven regional Hub organizations that administer program implementation and provide E-MDT Coordinator services for each county in the region. It is funded with a Federal grant received by the New York State Office of Victim Services from the United States Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, under the Victim of Crime Act (VOCA), and with State funding provided by the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA). It is overseen by NYSOFA and coordinated Statewide by Lifespan of Greater Rochester Inc. The New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA) provides funding to the E-MDTs in all five boroughs of New York City.

Lifespan and the New York City Elder Abuse Center (NYCEAC) at Weill Cornell Medicine work in concert to provide technical assistance and training to E-MDTs across New York State and with NYSOFA to provide strategic planning for the Initiative.