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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... Institute received funding under the National Institute of Health's Roadmap Initiative to develop an interdisciplinary research consortium on elder self - neglect . Candace J. Heisler , JD , served as a San Francisco assistant district ...
... Institute on Aging con- ducts some research related to elder abuse . The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ... Institute of Justice . Since 2002 , the Office on Violence Against Women has provided grants to train law enforcement ...
... Institute of Jus- tice , Publication No. 250 , pp . 2–7 ) . Washington , DC : U.S. Department of Justice . Blondell , R. D. ( 1999 ) . Alcohol abuse and self - neglect in the elderly . Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect , 11 ( 2 ) , 55–75 ...