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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... issue . For the book to be more comprehensive , we wished we could have included additional au- thors with expertise in ... issues not fully addressed in this text . One example of an issue we struggled with is abuse in long - term care ...
... issues of elder abuse . In sharp contrast , the federal government spends $ 520 million on programs com- bating violence against women and $ 6.7 billion on child abuse prevention efforts . Of the $ 153.3 million spent directly on elder ...
... issues to the attention of civil and criminal lawyers . Legal actions may be encouraged and supported by the deliberations of multidisciplinary teams , as was demonstrated by the case of Chloe in the previous chapter . Legislative ...