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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... evidence , take photographs of the crime scene and parties , document the incident , and interview the victim , any witnesses and , if possible , the alleged perpetrator . Core Duties Law enforcement's primary responsibility is to ...
... evidence at the scene to collect or document . Law enforcement used a subpoena to obtain the hospi- tal records and learned that there was medical evidence to support that Leroy has been physically abused and neglected . Leroy's wife ...
... evidence , witnesses , and suspects . To have the best chance of a successful prosecution , at least two of the three must be present . Physi- cal evidence may be the most crucial and is most time - sensitive . Delay in reporting often ...