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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... disciplines as needed ( Nerenberg , 2003 ) . In the National Center of Elder Abuse study of multidisciplinary teams , law enforcement , APS , and geriatric medicine health services were the most common disciplines represented ( Teaster ...
... disciplines are trained separately , the training team should include representatives of each discipline and a represen- tative from the discipline comprising the audience should lead the program . If the two audiences are combined ...
... disciplines that work with older persons . At the current time , the core curricula for educating doctors , nurses , dentists , psychologists , other health care professionals , and social workers usually do not con- tain information ...