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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... Chapter 3 addresses why elder abuse occurs and why vic- tims remain in relationships with perpetrators . Chapter 4 lists indicators of abuse , building on the definitions provided in this chapter , to assist professionals in recognizing ...
... Chapter 7 . These domains affect the older person , the intervention and safety strat- egies available , and all the systems that serve and help to implement these intervention and safety strategies . The failure to look broadly at ...
... chapter : to develop a case review or systems review team ; to draft memoranda of understanding , protocols , or policies ; to develop and implement training programs ; to develop programs and services to fill the needs of victims ; and ...