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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... percentage of elders from minority populations is projected to increase to 25.4 % by 2030. Between 1999 and 2030 , some populations will increase more significantly than others : Caucasian ( 81 % ) , Hispanic ( 328 % ) , African ...
... percent- ages of victims lived with their abusers ( Godkin , Wolf , & Pillemer , 1989 ; Greenberg , McKibben , & Raymond , 1990 ; Lachs , Williams , O'Brien , Hurst , & Horowitz , 1997 ; Lachs et al . , 1997 ; Pillemer & Finkelhor ...
... percent had been physically abused and 31 % were sexually abused by their intimate partner . " Stalking is how some men raise the stakes when women do not play along . It is a crime of power , control , and intimidation very similar to ...