Eilon Caspi, PhD Gerontologist, Dementia Behavior Specialist, & Elder Mistreatment

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Eilon Caspi, PhD. as guest to the show.

About Eilon Caspi, PhD.:

Eilon started working in the aging field 30 years ago as a nurse aide in a nursing home where his grandfather lived. Both his grandmothers lived with dementia.

Since then he worked as a social worker with low income older adults in the community and in a nursing home. Throughout the past 18 years, he has led several research studies aimed at improving understanding of various forms of elder mistreatment in long-term care homes (e.g. abuse, neglect, resident-to-resident incidents, theft of opioid pain medications, fear of retaliation / actual retaliation, and social media abuse). He is the founder of Dementia Behavior Consulting LLC where he assists families in supporting and caring for loved ones living with dementia.

In his free time, he enjoys hand carving wood such as brain hemispheres, giant 6-8 foot pencils, and educational signs including SEE ME Not My Dementia, Elder Voice, and Justice for Elders.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with discussions
0:06.7	on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local.
0:23.7	Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.
0:26.2	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking
0:29.7	time out to be with us today.
0:31.3	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each
0:35.2	episode here at All home care matters something that
0:37.8	will hopefully matter to you today I am honored to welcome Elon Casby gerontologist
0:43.5	director of dementia behavior consultants and elder mistreatment researcher welcome and thank you so much
0:51.2	for taking time out to be with us, Elon. How are you today?
0:55.2	I'm doing well.
1:08.9	I appreciate you, you know, you're giving this stage to raise awareness to this very concerning issue that actually you addressed a couple of years ago with the wonderful panel that I'm going to refer to a little later.
1:10.0	So thank you for that.
1:16.0	Absolutely. And, you know, thank you for, you know, really leading the way. You're also an author of several books. We'll have the links in our show notes. But today we're really talking about,
1:21.1	you know, the mistreatment, abuse, exploitation, and everything negative that unfortunately befalls
1:27.2	our seniors in society.
1:29.2	But what really led you to focus on this issue?
1:33.2	So in 2015 and 2016, there was a report that was put out by ProPublica.
1:43.3	And in it, they described several dozen of incidents that are very disturbing.
1:50.9	They had to do with gross privacy violations and abuse of older adults in nursing homes and assisted living
2:00.8	that were then posted by the care staff
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