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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... physical , or financial abuse , but men are more likely to be abandoned ( NCEA , 1998 ) . Two studies completed more than a decade ago using the Conflict Tactics Scale found more male victims than female victims of physical abuse ...
... Physical Abuse Physical abuse is defined as the use of physical force that may result in bodily injury , physical pain , or impairment . " Physical abuse may include , but is not limited to , such acts of violence as striking ( with or ...
... Physical Abuse ? Anyone with close and regular contact with an older person might iden- tify physical abuse . Health care providers are often in the best position to notice physical abuse because they are the people most likely to see ...