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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... assessment. Her research is in the area of elder neglect and the interdisciplinary approach to abused or neglected elders. She has made more than 100 presentations, including testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in 2002 on ...
... Assessment or Investigation Phase III: Crafting an Interventiion Plan Phase IV: Implementation of the Intervention Plan Multi-Agency Case: Doris Single-Agency Case: Estelle Enhancing Victim Safety Through Collaboration Elder Abuse Can ...
... assess abuse of older persons in long-term care facilities or other institutions. Currently, no single national entity collects and analyzes elder abuse data from the various sources. Existing data are compiled from state APS programs ...
... assessment and intervention to victims of elder abuse as they do for other vulnerable elders. Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Movements In the late 1980s, the connection was being made between domestic violence and elder abuse. In ...
... assessments to determine whether the older person is a victim of undue influence or has diminished capacity. Law ... assessment and intervention teams. The first formal medical response team began at the Beth Israel Hospital in ...
Contents
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COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |