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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... benefits • Meals on Wheels • Transportation Tax preparation In - home services Congregate meals Socialization Phone reassurance • Assist with getting benefits · Money management services Bill - paying services that also balance ...
... Benefits With reductions in duplication of services , systems benefit from cost sav- ings . Systems also gain when ... Benefits Society benefits from reduced recidivism , more effective and appropriate interventions , and improved ...
... benefits , 114-115 multidisciplinary versus interdisciplinary teams , 109 noncollaborative approach ( silo effect ) , 105-107 offender accountability and , 226-236 societal benefits , 115-116 system benefits , 115 teams , 108-109 types ...