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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... efforts can achieve better outcomes for seniors than individual or single - discipline responses . Given the many professions that may be involved in identifying and intervening in incidents of abuse — whether physical or sexual abuse ...
... effort within the participating entities can also derail efforts . Solutions to securing funding include convincing one of the par- ticipating agencies to provide staffing from within its ranks or to seek permanent funding within its ...
... efforts on changing statutes related to elder abuse . An example of this type of advocacy is the work of Mothers Against Drunk Driving , which has devoted its efforts to making drunk driving so- cially unacceptable and to strengthening ...