For National Family Caregivers Month, join the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), USC Center for Advancing Family Caregiver Financial and Workplace Security, Michigan Elder Justice Initiative, and Save Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Elder Abuse and Domestic Violence on this webinar to explore critical conversations that shape care. When these conversations are delayed or avoided, stress builds, decisions get made in crisis, and older adults can be left more vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, and family conflict. Speakers will offer practical approaches for beginning hard conversations early and planning ahead in ways that can protect everyone involved, all while centering the older adult's voice and values. 

Panelists: Alison Hirschel (Director of the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative), Rev. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter (an ordained United Methodist pastor and Co-director and Founder of Safe Havens), Dr. Donna Benton (Research Associate Professor of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center and the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center) and Dr. Laura Mosqueda (Professor of Family Medicine and Geriatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and an internationally respected authority on elder maltreatment)