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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A Collaborative Approach Bonnie Brandl. doctor was differentiating which medical finding was caused by elder abuse ... findings were the result of abuse . Accurate docu- mentation of the physical examination , history and lab tests ...
... findings . The determination of whether or not a criminal act has taken place is dependent on the particular criminal code of each individual state . One complication is that many states have difficult , even confusing , definitions of ...
... Findings from a survey . The Gerontologist , 29 , 314–320 . Pittaway , E. , & Westhues , A. ( 1993 ) . The prevalence of elder abuse and neglect of older adults who access health and social services in London , Ontario , Canada ...