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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... Human Services , with the remaining $ 10.16 million being spent on Department of Justice programs " ( Anonymous , 2002 , p . 16 ) . The Department of Health and Human Services provides funding and programming through the Social Services ...
... human services workers whose primary responsibility is to receive and investigate allegations of abuse , neglect , and exploitation against older adults and / or vulnerable adults . In most states , administrative authority for elder ...
... Human Services , 6 Department of Justice , 6 , 13 , 263 Developmental disabilities professionals , 142 Disabilities , 4 , 11 interviewing people with , 74 Discrimination , 240 Distance learning , 245 Division of Aging Services , 261 ...