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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... prevention . He is currently President of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and serves in an advisory capacity to the U.S. Department of Justice on the subject of elder abuse . He has been an adjunct professor at ...
... prevention , and many other aging services The Social Security Act , which governs the Social Security , Medi- care , Medicaid , and Social Services Block Grant programs and , thereby , relates to representative payees , long - term ...
... Prevention costs , 257 Prevention of Elder Abuse , 6 Prevention strategies , 205–206 Private advocacy for funding , 261-262 Private foundations , 261-262 Probation , 225 Professional awareness , 262-263 Prosecutors Adult Protective ...