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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... ( Nerenberg , 2000a ) . Domestic violence laws that may urge or even mandate arrest , minimum periods of custody , and temporary separation of the parties may not be acceptable to elder abuse professionals who are more used to picking and ...
... ( Nerenberg , 2003 ) . In the National Center of Elder Abuse study of multidisciplinary teams , law enforcement , APS , and geriatric medicine health services were the most common disciplines represented ( Teaster & Nerenberg , 2000 ) ...
... Nerenberg , 2000 ) . DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEAM Team members may want to develop a Web site or a newsletter to keep members of their own or other organizations informed about their prog- ress ( Nerenberg , 2003 ) ...