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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... risk factors is scarce . Draw- ing on data from domestic violence literature may provide information that is useful when working with older victims . No tool can decisively predict which victims are at risk of being killed . In a few ...
... risk factor for serious injury or death . Abused women who were killed or killed their abuser were more likely to have sought outside help than women who were severely beaten but not killed . Approximately 75 % of homicide victims and ...
... risk indicators and risk and protective factors for different types of elder mistreatment " ; ( 4 ) risk factors , including " the clinical course of elder mistreatment " ; and ( 5 ) research to " improve and develop new methods of ...