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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... factors of homicide / suicide include : • · Advanced age A long - lived marriage Depression and other psychiatric problems in perpetrator Perpetrator is a caregiver Perpetrator has a controlling personality Multiple health problems in ...
... factors for intimate partner homicide found that ( 1 ) women threatened or assaulted with a gun were 20 times more likely than other women to be murdered , ( 2 ) women threatened with murder were 15 times more likely than other women to ...
... factors for different types of elder mistreatment " ; ( 4 ) risk factors , including " the clinical course of elder mistreatment " ; and ( 5 ) research to " improve and develop new methods of screening for possible elder mistreatment in ...