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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... LONG - TERM CARE FACILITIES An Example of Facility Abuse At age 96 , Charles was living in a nursing home . He was in the last stage of Alzheimer's disease , was totally bedridden , and could not feed or toilet ... Long-term Care Facilities.
... LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN Each state has a Long Term Care Ombudsman Program that is mandated by the federal government as a condition of receiving Older Americans Act funding . Long - term care ombudsmen act as advocates for residents of ...
... Long term care ombudsman , 96 , 151 Long Term Care Ombudsman Program , 12-13 , 49 , 232 LTCF . See Long - term care facilities Material exploitation , 30-31 defined , 30 example of , 31 See also Financial exploitation Media coverage ...