Cúram for Adult Services
Cúram for Adult Services is designed to support agencies that are responsible for investigating abuse, neglect and exploitation of adults who are elderly or have disabilities.
Suitable For:
- Agencies responsible for investigation of reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation
- Agencies with a mission to promote the independence and enhance the dignity of older adults, persons with disabilities, and their families
- Agencies providing residential or community services to elderly adults and persons with disabilities
Cúram for Adult Services is designed to support agencies that are responsible for investigating abuse, neglect and exploitation of adults who are elderly or have disabilities.
Many elderly and disabled adults are at risk of abuse and exploitation from neighbors, family members, caregivers and even strangers because of age, health and vulnerability. The Cúram for Adult Services solution will specifically address programs managing those adult protection and disabled adult programs. The Solution will provide functionality to address the range of business and program needs including:
- Intake management
- Investigation
- Assessment
- Case management
- Provider management
- Eligibility
- Service provision
- Fund management
- Guardianship
- Legal Activities
- Allows agencies to be more responsive through coordination of MDTs
- Improves decision making through shared content
- Enables best practices
- Provides assessment driven service planning
- A COTS solution provides investment protection and lowers system deployment cost, risk, and time
- SOA-based platform enables agencies greater flexibility, easier to manage, reusable business and technology services, and ready integrates with the human services enterprise
- Cúram & COTS frees staff to build strategic capabilities and focus scarce resources on service delivery
Supporting Materials
Experts suggest that only 1 in 5 — and possibly only 1 in 12 — abuse cases are ever reported. From 1986 to 1996, state and federal government data suggest that there has been a 150 percent increase in reports of elder abuse in domestic settings.
National Center on Elder Abuse National Incidence Summary, September 1998