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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... actions • Testify in civil and criminal court actions younger adults , ages 18 to 59 , who have disabilities that prevent them from protecting themselves . Educational requirements for APS workers and supervisors vary , ranging from a ...
... actions against the managerial staff or owners of the facility or the chain , rather than actions against the nursing aides and other low - level staff who may actually have committed the abuse or neglect . For example , the Medicaid ...
... actions against perpetrators . Statutory changes may be necessary in many states to enable the development of el ... action may be necessary to foster special handling of elder abuse cases by the courts , prosecutor's offices , or law ...