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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... Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. Her clinical interests include care of the elderly poor, elder ... U.S. Senate Finance Committee in 2002 on behalf of mistreated elders. Dr. Dyer is the principal investigator of a number ...
... Department of Human Services. Since 2001, Ms. Otto has been the executive ... U.S. Senate Finance Committee on the need for federal protective services ... U.S. Department of Justice, the American Geriatrics Society, and the FBI. Ms. Otto ...
... U.S. Department of Justice on the subject of elder abuse. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, in the areas of juvenile delinquency, crime prevention, and ...
... U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, to open the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life. In 2000, the Violence Against Women Act provided grants to train law enforcement, prosecutors, and court personnel ...
... U.S. Department of Justice established its Nursing Home Initiative, which supported federal and state criminal and civil actions against long-term care facilities through education of prosecutors, law enforcement officers, staff of APS ...
Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |