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Welcome to the Bennett Blum, M.D. website and information about
elder abuse, financial abuse, undue influence, and mental capacity evaluations. This page contains
information about Dr. Blum, including a summary of professional accomplishments, expert services - including training, consulting, testimony, and other litigation
support, and contact information.
Bennett
Blum, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed physician specializing in both forensic psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.
He is an expert on the evaluation of undue influence - including the manipulation tactics, coercion and psychological
conditions used by offenders to abuse and exploit others. His pioneering assessment techniques in the areas of undue
influence, mental capacity, and competency are taught throughout much of the Western Hemisphere. (For more about Dr. Blum). Expert Services and Litigation Support
Dr. Blum provides consulting
and litigation services worldwide. Major areas of expertise include: - Elder
abuse - Financial abuse or exploitation; physical abuse and homicide of the elderly; sexual and psychological abuse
- Undue influence and coercion
- Mental
capacity and competency - including testamentary capacity; contractual capacity, and donative capacity
- Diminished capacity
- Brain damage and
cognitive impairment
- Litigation and the aging population
- Insanity evaluations
- Mental
disability
- Mental and emotional damages
- Medical malpractice
Contact us for more information.
Professional Summary
Bennett
Blum, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed physician specializing in both forensic psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.
He is an expert on the evaluation of undue influence - including the manipulation tactics, coercion and psychological
conditions used by offenders to abuse and exploit others. His pioneering assessment techniques in the areas of undue
influence, mental capacity, and competency are taught throughout much of the Western Hemisphere. He has consulted on hundreds
of legal cases throughout the United States, including the criminal trials of Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, and Theresa Ramirez;
civil litigation case of O.J. Simpson; and litigation regarding Merrill-Lynch and the Orange County bankruptcy. Internationally,
Dr. Blum testified in the precedent-setting United Nations trial of General Pavle Strugar - the first full competency hearing
at the International War Crimes Tribunal since Nuremberg. Dr.
Blum's work regarding elder abuse, undue influence, and mental capacity evaluations first received national attention
when he was the only mental health expert asked to testify at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's
1999 hearing on Fraud: Targeting America's Seniors. From
2002-2004, Dr. Blum was a technical advisor to the Research Triangle Institute for its national study on elder financial abuse
and exploitation. This study was the basis for the Administration on Aging’s “Financial Exploitation
of Older Persons Report.” In 2005, Dr. Blum participated in an invitation-only policy development conference
for the White House Conference on Aging.
Dr. Blum works with numerous professional, legislative and community organizations on the
prevention, investigation, and litigation of issues related to elder abuse, financial abuse and fraud, assessment of
mental capacity, undue influence and manipulation tactics, sexual abuse, homicide, suicide, depression, and memory disorders. His
work became part of a nationwide 2006 training project entitled "Undue Influence: The Criminal Justice Response." In
2007, Dr. Blum worked with the National College of District Attorneys and National District Attorneys Association to review
the mental capacity and undue influence sections of their course "Prosecuting Elder Abuse Cases."
In addition, Dr. Blum serves as a consultant to the Fiduciary Abuse Specialist Teams in Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura Counties.
He is also a founding member of the Pima County Death Analysis Review Team in Arizona, a multi-disciplinary group dedicated
to the investigation and prosecution of elder homicides A
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Arizona, Dr. Blum received his medical education from the University of Arizona and
psychiatric training at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His
work has been published by the National College of Probate Judges, State Bar Associations, and in major medical textbooks
- including a chapter on elder abuse, exploitation, and legal issues in geriatric psychiatry in the eighth edition of Kaplan
and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. He has also co-authored
the internationally acknowledged seminal research on police-assisted suicide ("suicide by cop"), worked as an advisor
for several law enforcement training films, including "Predators of the Elderly," and taught homicide investigators
of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department.
Contact information - Worldwide Services Offices in Arizona and California
Bennett
Blum, M.D.
5425 E. Broadway Blvd. PMB #358
Tucson, Arizona 85711
Site Map - Undue Influence, Mental Capacity, Elder Financial Abuse
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