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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... residents may be physically or mentally incapable of reporting abuse . They or their family members and other visitors may fear that reports will result in increased abuse or retaliation . Even when reports are made , regulatory ...
... Residents may be sexually assaulted by other residents . In some cases , the resident who is a perpetrator may have dementia and may be acting out in sexually inappropriate ways . In other situations , the resident is a sexual predator ...
... residents of long - term care facilities ( as defined by state law ) , regardless of the resident's age , and work to ensure that residents ' rights are not violated . Ombudsmen respond to complaints from residents and , in most states ...