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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... ment . Her research is in the area of elder neglect and the interdisciplinary approach to abused or neglected elders . She has made more than 100 presentations , including testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Com- mittee in 2002 on ...
... ment of state working groups composed of those professionals ( Office of Justice Programs , 2000 ) . Multidisciplinary Approaches to Elder Abuse Historically , systemic responses to elder abuse were not collaborative and often involved ...
... ment and prosecutors in building financial exploitation . criminal cases . Domestic Violence Response Teams These teams were formed to simultaneously investigate and build criminal cases , while at the same time meet the immediate ...