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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... Social Support Victims of abuse often lack social supports and ties to the community . Sometimes the abuser has isolated the victim . In other cases , the victim prefers being on his or her own , which may increase the risk for abuse ...
... social cost analyses of other forms of interpersonal violence . The report found a range of results in national studies about the social costs of child abuse and domestic violence in the United States . In those studies , the social ...
... Social activism , 255 Social change . See Advocacy for change Social costs , 257-258 Social exchange theory , 42-44 Social Security , 269 Social Security Act , 269 Statutory reform , 249-250 Strangulation , 199 Strategic initiatives ...