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. |
From inside the book
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... Conducting Strategic Planning Utilizing Data to Direct Research Dissemination of Information About the Team SECTION FOUR: ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK NINE The Work of a Case Management Team Overview Phase I: Case Referral 124 126 127 127 128 ...
... conducted in 1998 under the auspices of the National Center on Elder Abuse, reported that 551,011 persons over age 60 experienced some form of abuse or neglect (National Center on Elder Abuse [NCEA], 1998). The study estimate of ...
... conducted by the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) and Westat (National Center on Elder Abuse, 1998). Data from all 50 state Adult Protective Services programs, the District of Columbia, and Guam were collected in 2000 and again in ...
... conduct and community service functions, such as well-being checks. Responses to social problems, including family ... conducting investigations of family violence matters. It is 8 ELDER ABUSE DETECTION AND INTERVENTION.
... conducting investigations of family violence matters. It is not surprising that when few arrests for domestic violence and elder abuse were made, few prosecutions were initiated. Adding to the limited response, there was little training ...
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 |