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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... older individual may or may not be in need of assis- tance or care , the ... persons with legal responsibility to make legal , health , or financial ... older person who is unable to take care of or protect himself or herself . Self ...
... persons 50 years or older . Some states enhance criminal penalties for crimes commit- ted against a person who is age 65 or older . This text refers to persons over the age of 60 as elders because that is the age used by the federal Older ...
A Collaborative Approach Bonnie Brandl. older person may be eligible for , as well as the most appropriate health ... persons of faith , religious or spiritual organizations offer numerous opportunities for edu- cation , as well as ...