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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... hospital - based team was to provide consultation and support to hospital staff , assist in a multidimensional evaluation of older victims of mistreat- ment , and develop treatment plans ( Matlaw & Spence , 1994 ) . In New York City ...
... hospital because of his deteriorating mental and physical condi- tion . After two weeks in the hospital , Harold refused to allow the surgeon to amputate his leg and he left the hospital against medi- cal advice . The assigned visiting ...
... hospital that treated Rosa had made two reports within 24 hours ( see Chapter 8 ) . This case illustrates that APS and the hospital could develop a protocol for the hospital to follow when making reports to APS . That protocol could ...