Saint Joseph's University in Lancaster, formerly Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, held an abuse training simulation on April 2.

Featuring actors who portrayed medical patients, the scenario required students to conduct a home health assessment of an older couple. During the assessment, the students witnessed an abusive scenario in which the couple's granddaughter, also their financial power of attorney, took advantage of them financially. Students were tasked with taking care of the elderly couple's physical health as well as recognizing the abuse and switching gears to address it sympathetically.

The simulation was intended to teach students empathy and advocacy and to demonstrate that being a health care professional entails wearing many different hats and implies taking care of the whole individual.