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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... rates are higher in the population age 55 and above ( Malphurs & Cohen , 2001 ) . A total of 83 % involve spouses and intimate partners ( Cohen , 1998 , 2000 ) . One - third of all cases involve couples with histories of domestic ...
... rates of homicide / suicide than younger people . In cases of homicide / suicide , the perpetrator takes the life of the victim and then kills him- self . One study indicates that most ( 83 % ) homicides / suicides are of the spouse ...
... rate elder mistreatment should be evaluated , and agencies funding new intervention programs should require and fund a scientifically adequate evaluation as a component of each grant " ( Bonnie & Wallace , 2003 , pp . 5-6 ) . The ...