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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... designed to help them often fail . Restraining or protective orders may be ignored . Emer- gency shelters may not be accessible . An older victim may go to the do- mestic violence shelter only to find that no one her age is a resident ...
... designed . Professionals car- ry out the aspects of the plan according to his or her expertise and skill . Although in the truest sense interdisciplinary teams and multidisci- plinary teams are different models for decision making ...
... designed to preserve remaining assets and recover those no longer in the elder's pos- session but not yet dissipated . Professionals are better able to understand other disciplines , including their roles and limitations , and can ...