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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... RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VICTIM AND ABUSER This book focuses on elder abuse in situations in which the victim has an ongoing relationship of trust with the perpetrator . " Trust relation- ship " has been defined as “ a care giving relationship ...
... relationship , often following the death of , or divorce from , a previous partner . The abuse could be occurring throughout the relationship or may be relatively new . Abuse can occur in any relationship , regardless of the sexual ...
... RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ABUSER ? Most victims who have a relationship of trust with their abusers have conflicted feelings about intervention . Victims do not want to be abused , neglected , or exploited . In many cases , the victim wants ...