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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... problem . Younger persons with mental illness or trau- matic brain injuries are housed with frail elderly people with dementia . Convicted sexual predators who have multiple health problems may be placed by the court in a long - term ...
... problems faced by victims , as well as the diversity of responses required to help them , the authors believe that ... problem will not truly be addressed . If the physician simply treats a patient's dehy- dration without discovering ...
... problems discussed previously . Those recommendations have usually been offered as part of broader research agendas ( to avoid redundancy ? ) and are discussed in the next section . Research Research on elder abuse is imperative to ...