NACDA Podcast 15 - Dr. Peter Lichtenberg and the WALLET study
Jan 23, 2025
This 23-minute podcast features Dr. Peter Lichtenberg:
- Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Gerontology, Wayne State University
- Research Focus: Elements of financial capacity: manage finances, make informed financial decisions and avoid financial exploitation
- Currently working on: Piloting a financial exploitation prevention project and writing up papers from the WALLET study – Wealth Accumulations & Later-life Losses in Early cognitive Transitions, 2020-2023 -The overall goal of the project was to create a new “real world” financial management test from older individual’s bank records, and examine the older adult’s wealth loss, financial decision-making and vulnerability to financial exploitation.
Resources mentioned in this podcast:
- Dr. Lichtenberg’s profile
- WALLET project website
- Access the data: https://doi.org/10.3886/E211722V1
- Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference: https://www.geron.org/
- Dr. Lichtenberg Website: https://www.olderadultnestegg.com/
- American Psychological Association (APA): https://www.apa.org/
- Psychologists in Long-Term Care: https://www.pltcweb.org/
- International Neuropsychological Society (INS): https://the-ins.org/
- National Academy of Neuropsychology: https://www.nanonline.org/
- National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA): https://www.napsa-now.org/
- Health and Retirement Study (HRS)