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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... focus on public awareness education or pro- fessional training . Alternatively , the group could decide to focus on case review , meaning that a group of professionals , usually from several disci- plines , convene to fact find ...
... focus and approach have been determined , the team is ready to move from the planning phase to formation . Ann enlists the head of the APS agency , who invites members of law enforcement , prosecution , the banking industry , and health ...
... focus of a statutory reform effort may be fairly narrow . For example , a systems review may indicate that a state's statutes governing civil and / or criminal orders of protection or mandatory arrest for domes- tic violence only cover ...