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The Keck School’s Department of Family Medicine has been awarded a grant of $401,970 from the Archstone Foundation to teach its medical residents about elder abuse.

The grant will cover a two-year period for KSOM and its partner institutions: the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the University of California, San Diego.

The schools will work together to develop a curriculum for residents specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine, as well as geriatric fellows. Currently, primary care residencies do not have dedicated, standardized classes to teach residents the signs and risk factors related to elder abuse, treatment, and reporting requirements.

The Archstone Foundation is a private grant-making organization that works to meet the needs of an aging population. The organization, based in Long Beach and founded in 1985, says the curriculum project builds on its “decades-long legacy support to address and prevent elder mistreatment.”