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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... offender in a substantive way . This approach recognizes that elder abuse is more than simply problems resulting from the stress of caregiving and an issue best left to social services . It begins to reflect a shift in focus from the ...
... offender accountable . The civil justice system also plays a role in offender accountability . Civil at- torneys representing abused or exploited clients can file lawsuits against perpetrators for civil damages , recovery of assets and ...
... offender for the physical or emo- tional injury caused to the victim and / or the victim's family . Remove offender from any legal authority over the victim , in- cluding revocation of offender's role as the victim's agent under a ...