Our social and scientific communities alike have been drastically uprooted since the novel coronavirus impacted the world last December. This article tackles questions regarding COIVD’s effects on the brain, cognition (thinking clarity), and general life functioning related to contracting the coronavirus, as well as discussing the road to recovery (read time: 10 mins)
Ventura County Adult Abuse Prevention Council is sponsoring an event tomorrow in Ventura for seniors focusing on scams and how to protect yourself. The Stop Seniors Scams Acting Program will be presenting a series of skits on scams. Adult Protective Services will also have speakers present to talk about what is being seen in the county right now.
If you are interested, the event is at Cypress Place in Ventura, 1200 Cypress Point Lane at 1:30PM tomorrow, February 20, 2020.
Here is the link to the article. I co-authored it with Debbie Deem, FBI Victim Advocate Specialist. This addition of the Journal focuses on Elder Justice issues, and so we discuss chronic scam victimization of the elderly, including contributing factors and ways to address it with government and local community resources.
It is in the US Attorney Bulletin, AKA Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice
Transnational Scam Predators and Older Adult Victims: Contributing Characteristics of Chronic Victims and Developing an Effective Response - by Debbie Deem and Erik Lande
https://www.justice.gov/usao/page/file/1121446/download
It is page 181 of the pdf (which is actually page 177 of the journal itself)
