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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... capacity and are unable to participate in their own decision making . Those who do have decision - making capacity or who have diminished capacity are sometimes subject to undue influence . Undue influence undermines the free - will ...
... capacity to consent . Persons with capacity have the right to make foolish choices . A college student with papers and books piled floor to ceiling does not require medical , social service , or legal intervention . Currently , the gold ...
... capacity . Elders without capacity make perfect victims , as they may not recognize when they are being exploited . They also may not be able to fend for themselves when abused or neglected . Assessment of decision - making capacity is ...