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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... patients . Oth- ers may abuse patients in retaliation for the perception that they are under- paid and overworked by the facility administration . Others may have a past history , particularly of sexual abuse , which they repeat at each ...
... patient is mentally incapaci- tated , the physician's duty to the patient's safety and best interests can override the patient's wishes . Other Useful Information Medical professionals may have varying degrees of knowledge concern- ing ...
... patient's lungs . " Depending on the particular case , team members may simply need to know that the patient had fluid leak- ing into her lungs and that medical intervention was undertaken . If the issues are not just the patient's ...