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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... attorney for more than 25 years before her retirement in 2002. As a prosecutor, she headed various units in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office including the Domestic Violence Unit, which oversaw the prosecution of domestic ...
... Attorney's Association Career Achievement Award and the California Governor's Victim Services Award. Currently, Ms. Heisler is an assistant adjunct professor of law at the University of California's Hastings College of Law. Joanne ...
... attorneys, and others who work with elder abuse victims on a daily basis. Their commitment to assisting victims and ending elder abuse inspires us. Copyright © 2007 Springer Publishing Company, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this ...
... at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and at the police department for entrusting me for many years with these complex and remarkable cases. To my many friends and colleagues who have helped me xix Acknowledgments.
... Attorney's Association has now adopted a position that: given the numerous agencies and individuals that are involved with elders on a daily basis, the National District Attorneys Association recognizes that a multidisciplinary approach ...
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 |