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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... behavior constitutes elder abuse (Anetzberger, 1998; Hudson & Carlson, 1999; Moon, 2000). Professional lexicons define the forms of elder abuse based on the conventions that exist within the respective fields. Prosecutors, law ...
... behaviors over a period of time, and the victim may want to maintain the relationship and protect the abuser. Another category of “relationship of trust” includes persons with legal responsibility to make legal, health, or financial ...
... behaviors. In some instances, the family member is providing care for the older person. In other situations, the older person is healthy and competent, and it is the family member who is financially or emotionally dependent on the ...
... behavior • The caregiver's refusal to allow visitors to see an elder alone • Changes in speaking, breathing, or swallowing that may be the result of strangulation living in an outpatient mental health facility, but was evicted after he ...
... behavior that staff could be trained to identify as possible signals of sexual assault. Psychological or Emotional Abuse Emotional or psychological abuse is defined as the infliction of anguish, pain, or distress through verbal or ...
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 |