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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... protective services have not worked well together . Adult Protective Services typically lacked confidence in law enforcement , even when they knew of criminal conduct , and law enforcement seldom referred cases to protective services ...
... protective orders , 207 , 228 , 250 qualified protective orders , 234-235 restraining orders , 207 , 225 , 234 Crawford v . Washington , 225-226 Crime data , 272 Crimes , 8 committed by strangers versus trusted caretakers , 18-19 ...
... protective services and , 230-231 See also Criminal justice system ; Law enforcement Office for Victims of Crime , 263 Office of the Inspector General , 6 Office of the Ventura County District Attorney , 261 Office on Violence Against ...