World Health Organization Wins Rosalie Wolf Memorial Award

In a related development, the World Health Organization (WHO) Violence and Injuries Prevention Department – which spearheaded the World Report on Violence and Health – and WHO’s Aging and Life Course Program – which produced Missing Voices: Views of Older Persons on Elder Abuse -- received the 2002 first Rosalie Wolf Memorial Elder Abuse Prevention Award.

The awards, established collaboratively by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NCPEA), and the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI), honor those whose work follows the path laid by the late elder abuse pioneer and international advocate, Rosalie S. Wolf, Ph.D., founding President of NCPEA and founding chairperson of INPEA.

In a press release on the award, INPEA Chair Lia Daichman, Vice Chair Elizabeth Podnieks, and Secretary Gerry Bennett say WHO was honored because of its World Report on Violence and Health and “subsequent project to address elder abuse specifically,” the “Global Response Against Elder Abuse” program, which has published Missing Voices: Views of Older Persons on Elder Abuse.

The award was given at the International Family Violence Conference, held in San Diego, California, on September 27, 2002.