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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... prosecutions were initiated . Adding to the limited response , there was little training provided to criminal justice profession- als on the investigation and prosecution of elder abuse cases . When vic- tims declined to prosecute or ...
... prosecutor might feel that a mental health response would be preferable to a prosecution . In that situation , the prosecutor might work with the mental health sys- tem and APS to obtain ongoing care for Juanita . Whatever approach was ...
... prosecution , at least two of the three must be present . Physi- cal evidence may be the most crucial and is most ... prosecution and feel protective toward the abuser , particularly if the abusers are their children . Because of ...