Rosalie Wolf Memorial Lecture: A logic model to measure the impacts of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

ABSTRACT

This commentary discusses the need to evaluate the impact of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day activities, the elder abuse field’s most sustained public awareness initiative. A logic model is proposed with measures for short-term, medium-term, and long-term outcomes for community-based programs.

KEYWORDS:

• Commentary
• elder abuse program evaluation
• elder abuse public awareness
• logic model
• World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

Notes

¹ These time periods were chosen with the assumption that new and/or continuing WEAAD activities would commence in month 12, if this continues to be an annual event. Thus, evaluation would be continuous and sustained over a period of years.