Georgia Anetzberger Bio

Georgia J. Anetzberger, PhD, ACSW, LISW is a consultant in private practice, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Adjunct Faculty in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, and Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America, including serving on the Editorial Board of The Gerontologist. She is a member of the Advisory Board to the National Center on Elder Abuse and the Steering Committee to the federal Elder Justice Roadmap. Dr. Anetzberger also is Past-President of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and immediate Past-Editor of the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect. She has been active in the field of elder abuse for over forty years as a practitioner, planner, administrator, researcher, and educator. Dr. Anetzberger has conducted pioneering research on such subjects as elder abuse perpetrators and cultural variation in meaning or response to elder abuse; authored more than eighty scholarly publications on elder abuse or related interventions, including the books The Etiology of Elder Abuse by Adult Offspring and The Clinical Management of Elder Abuse; was the architect of Ohio’s adult protective services law; led in the establishment of the oldest state and local elder abuse networks in the United States; and was the 2005 recipient of the Rosalie S. Wolf Memorial Elder Abuse Prevention Award—National Category.