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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... role in the identification , assessment , and intervention in cases of elder maltreatment ( Balaswamy , 2002 , p . 2 ) ... roles and skills , leading to frustration among professionals who work together and , ultimately , noncooperation in ...
... role of the APS worker and the medical social worker . The team resolved this confusion by creating guidelines that clarified the roles . Currently , these and other limitations have led some multidisciplinary collaborations to not ...
... role is that of a first - responder and often the primary investigator . In the majority of local law enforcement agen- cies , both functions may be the responsibility of a single person . If cases are accepted by other law enforcement ...