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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... Perpetrators threaten victims and urge them to make decisions quickly and without advice from others ( Johnson , 2003 ) . The perpetrator courts and befriends the elder , gain- ing his trust and cutting him off from friends , family ...
... perpetrator Perpetrator is a caregiver Perpetrator has a controlling personality Multiple health problems in perpetrator Marital discord Family discord Social isolation Perpetrator giving things away ( Cohen , 2000 ) Lethality ...
... perpetrator ( e.g. , divorce , separa- tion , annulment ) Lawfully remove perpetrator from household Admit to hospital under a false name • Restrict public access to patient Place in less public area of hospital or very public area so ...