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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... Decision Making and the Law Michael Smyer, PhD, K. Warner Schaie, PhD, and Marshall Kapp, JD, MPH 1995 Controversies in Ethics ... Decisions Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, Editor Bonnie Brandl, MSW,* is the project coordinator for the National.
... Decisions relating to guardianships and conservatorships are not categorized as elder abuse cases. Other civil actions and remedies have either not been used, or not recognized or classified as elder abuse cases. Most civil legal decisions ...
... can include familial-like situations and/or persons who have authority to assist an elder with financial, health, or legal decisions or are responsible to provide care 17. CHAPTER. TWO. TWO: Defining Elder Abuse Introduction.
... decisions or are responsible to provide care (such as staff in a facility). Familial “relationships of trust” include those between spouses or partners, family members, and some caregivers who become like family. In many of these ...
... decisions for an older person uses that position of power to abuse, neglect, or exploit the elder. A victim of elder abuse may have greater needs than a victim of crime by a stranger, and these needs may necessitate that more systems ...
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 |