Elder Abuse Detection and Intervention: A Collaborative ApproachPRESERVING A LIFE OF PEACE AND DIGNITY FOR THE AGING This ground-breaking volume offers a new, collaborative approach geared to enhance case review, improve victim safety, raise abuser accountability, and promote system change. Sharing the common goal of promoting elder victim safety, experts in adult protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, health care, advocacy, and civil justice have formed a unique, multidisciplinary team approach to tackle the following critical topics:
As the aging population continues to grow, so does the potential for increasing cases of elder abuse. Replete with case examples that allow the experiences of victims to speak for themselves, this book provides the framework to begin, and to build on, collaborative approaches at the local, state, and national levels toward ending elder abuse. |
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... adult children , and other family members or caregivers are the most common perpetrators of sexual assault and abuse ( National Center on Elder Abuse , 1998 ) . Seniors are told they are stu- pid or crazy , a common form of emotional ...
... Adult Protective Services / Elder Abuse Agencies APS is the principal public source of first response to reports of elder and vulnerable adult abuse , neglect , and exploitation . ( The definition of vulnerable adult varies based on ...
... adult with the adult's right to self - de- termination . Unlike children , adults retain their full array of civil rights unless those rights have been limited by the imposition of a court - ordered guardianship or conservatorship ...