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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... called for all health professional schools to educate their trainees about the issue of family violence , including elder abuse ( Bonnie & Wallace , 2003 ) . A recent report by the Institute of Medicine called for all health ...
... called police at 1:00 A.M. She said that her husband Arthur , age 89 , had just struck her several times on the upper arm , pulled her hair , kicked her in the hip to force her out of bed , and kicked her walker out of her reach ...
... called her a name or two . " As his anger escalated , his mother tried to calm him down and he yelled at her . He refused to participate further in the interview and demanded that the APS worker leave immediately . Ralph called the APS ...