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Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.
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Subtopic: Elder abuse

Number of Awards: 54
Total Amount Awarded: $24,053,898

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 Defining the Properties of Osseointegrated and Ingrowth Bone Around Orthopedic Medical Devices and Their Effect on Fracture Risk in Elderly Populations: A Forensic Anthropological Perspective NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-01583-RESS $180,000 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023 Elder Abuse Survivor Equity (EASE) Study: National Longitudinal Trajectories and Translation for Practitioners and the Public NIJ FY23 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-02625-MUMU $1,499,885 Open
2021 Fatal and Non-Fatal Intimate Partner and Family Violence Against Older Women: An Exploration of Age and Police Response to Inform Research, Policy and Practice Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-02801-REVA $195,135 Open
2020 A Skeletal Atlas of Elder Abuse: Establishing Markers of Physical Abuse and Developing a Digital Diagnostic Tool for Education and Screening Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2020-75-CX-0005 $1,035,328 Open
2020 Evaluability Assessment of the Weinberg Center for Elder Justice's Elder Abuse Shelter Services Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2020-V3-GX-0077 $302,950 Closed
2020 Pathways to Safety: An Examination of Federal and State-Level Barriers and Facilitators to Elder Abuse Reporting and Response Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020 EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC. MA 2020-75-CX-0003 $433,368 Closed
2020 Piloting a Comprehensive Caregiver Intervention: A Pathway to Preventing Elder Mistreatment NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CA 2020-75-CX-0001 $479,392 Closed
2019 Financial Exploitation Intervention Team Evaluability Assessment Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 2019-V3-GX-0005 $995,926 Closed
2019 Mass Marketing Elder Fraud Intervention Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-R2-CX-0053 $988,159 Open
2019 Prevention of Financial Abuse Among Elders Affected by Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Controlled Trial In Three Rural Communities Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2019-MU-CX-0094 $595,961 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Using Physician Behavioral Big Data for High Precision Fraud Prediction and Detections Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 2019-R2-CX-0016 $842,768 Closed
2018 Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project:Planning Phase NIJ FY18 Continuations THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2016-MU-CX-K006 $999,557 Closed
2017 Defining Late-Life Poly-victimization and Identifying Associated Mental and Physical Health Symptoms NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON, THE TX 2017-VF-GX-0001 $271,822 Closed
2017 Developing a Taxonomy To Understand and Measure Outcomes of Success in Community-Based Elder Mistreatment Interventions NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY NY 2017-VF-GX-0002 $499,982 Closed
2017 Optimizing Bone Loss Across the Lifespan: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Porosity in the Human Femoral Neck and Rib As a Metric of Bone Fragility NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics The Ohio State University OH 2017-MU-CX-0009 $50,000 Closed
2016 Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project:Planning Phase Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2016-MU-CX-K006 $399,370 Closed
2016 Planning a Family-Focused Approach to Prevent Elder Mistreatment Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase University of Southern California CA 2016-ZD-CX-K008 $400,000 Closed
2015 Development and Validation of a Screening Protocol to Identify Elder Abuse in United States Emergency Departments NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL NC 2015-IJ-CX-0022 $968,933 Closed
2015 The Health Care Cost of Elder Abuse: An Analysis of Medicare, Medicaid, and Adult Protective Services Data in Maine, 2006 through 2014 NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals University of Southern Maine ME 2015-ZD-CX-0003 $328,940 Closed
2014 Development of a brief elder abuse and neglect screener for Emergency Medical Services: Detection of Elder abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-MU-CX-0102 $369,039 Closed
2014 Integrating Improved Assessments of Financial Judgment: Conceptual and Measurement Advances NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities Wayne State University MI 2014-MU-CX-0001 $468,181 Closed
2014 National Elder Mistreatment Study: 5 Year Followup of Victims and Matched Non-Victims NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities Medical University of South Carolina SC 2014-MU-CX-0003 $260,136 Closed
2013 Developing and Testing a Culturally Relevant Practice Model to Understand Financial Maltreatment of Chinese American Elders NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2013-IJ-CX-0024 $72,775 Closed
2013 Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Indentifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors to Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX 2013-IJ-CX-0050 $387,736 Closed
2013 Forensic Markers of Physical Elder Abuse: Establishing a Medical Characterization and Identifying the Criminal Justice Approach to Investigation and Prosecution NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities University of Southern California CA 2013-IJ-CX-0025 $518,327 Closed