Evaluation Plan: The evaluation will be conducted by a team from the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology led by Kathleen H. Wilber, PhD, Mary Pickford Foundation Professor of Gerontology and Professor of Health Services Administration at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. The goals of the evaluation are twofold: A) to evaluate the Forensic Center model, and B) to evaluate client outcomes that result from implementing the model.

A) Evaluating the Forensic Center model will report on both a process evaluation and an outcome evaluation. The process evaluation will focus on the extent to which the model is implemented as planned and will examine what facilitated and what the barriers were to implementation. 

To evaluate the extent to which Team members are engaged in the process and planned activities are carried out and to track the Team's collaborative development over time, process-based tracking information will be collected on each case reviewed. A member of the evaluation team will attend each of the team meetings and process record team activities.

To assess the Team's effectiveness in working together to resolve cases the evaluators will also examine the extent to which the Forensic Center goals are achieved.

B) To evaluate the impact of the Forensic Center intervention on elder abuse victims , evaluators will collect information on clients' health, psycho-social functioning, and well-being for all cases brought to the Team. Individual level characteristics to be collected include the following: socio-demographics; abuse and/or neglect characteristics (nature and scope of abuse/neglect history); characteristics of the perpetrator if known; and health and mental health status extracted from existing available data with the cooperation of members of the Team, Los Angeles County Adult Protective Services, and the Ombudsman's office. Based on the initial action plan and as appropriate for each case, evaluators will also assess:

• The extent to which the victim's safety is effectively addressed
• The extent to which the victim's property is safeguarded
• The extent to which necessary information is collected to file and prosecute the case
• The extent to which the abuse or neglect situation is affected
• Quality of Forensic Center Team outcome from client and team perspective (e.g. change in health and functional status, quality of life, and psychological well-being)
• Types of neuropsychological deficits present in various forms of abuse
• Utility of a conceptual model for undue influence in cases of financial elder and dependent adult abuse