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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... Violence . The National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life provides technical assistance , training , and consultation on domestic abuse in later life . Ms. Brandl has worked with battered women and their children for more than 17 ...
... Violence and Sexual Assault Movements In the late 1980s , the connection was being made between domestic violence and elder abuse . In Wisconsin , the Department of Health and Family Services held a landmark conference bringing together ...
... violence . Domestic violence and sexual assault programs operate from a grassroots perspec- tive that originated from the concept of women helping other women with the violence in their lives . Programs use a self - help model , meaning ...