Bangor Daily News covers UNE training program to help health care practitioners spot scams against the elderly

The Bangor Daily News on April 19, 2012 covered an April 18th training workshop designed to assist health care professionals in identifying the red flags of financial elder abuse. The program was presented by the UNE Maine Geriatric Education Center and UNE Center for Community and Public Health, in partnership with the State of Maine Office of Securities.

The news story summarized the event, which used a nationally recognized continuing medical education program that offers preventative strategies to health care practitioners. The program was presented by Maine Securities Administrator Judith Shaw and Robert E. Roush, Ed.D., M.P.H., director of the Texas Consortium Geriatric Education Center at Baylor College of Medicine. Read the story.

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