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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... Obtain medical care for injured victims • Investigate allegations • Identify criminal conduct • Collect relevant evidence • Apply for and execute arrest and search warrants • Conduct identification procedures • Process forensic evidence ...
... obtain an identification card before care was delivered . After an APS referral to the team , the medical social worker asked the APS worker to obtain a hospital identification card for his client . The APS worker resisted doing this ...
... obtained from a victim is legally protected and confidential Intervention Strategies Provide palliative care at the end ... Obtain conviction of perpetrators of elder abuse • Seek conditions of probation to address underlying reasons for ...