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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... Improve cognitive status by providing medication and mental retraining Improve functional status by prescribing therapy and / or assistive devices • Prevent deterioration by monitoring health status · Prevent death by responding to ...
... improve its evalu- ative picture . Similarly , if an increase in arrests by law enforcement is a measure of team ... improved quality of life , reduction of isolation , in- creased feelings of safety , and whether the victims have made ...
... improving detection and treatment of the problem , supporting increased funding for elder abuse intervention programs ... improve data collection . The need for multiple strategies can be a boon to multidisciplinary collaboration . In ...