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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... developed statutory reform initiatives . Efforts have been made to strengthen the regulatory process at the state and federal lev- els . The number of personal injury lawsuits for nursing home abuse has exploded , and it is now common ...
... developed . Medical case review teams , fatality review teams , and fiduciary abuse specialist teams are exam- ples of the some of the early collaborations that developed ( Teaster & Nerenberg , 2000 ) . Much of what developed into ...
... developed by multidisciplinary groups of experts . Each of those groups has also explicitly or implicitly recognized the importance of involving practitioners in any research initiatives . The National Research Council , part of the ...