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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... Emotional and Physical Abuse and Financial Exploitation Effective Interventions Through Collaboration Case 2: Caregiver Neglect Guiding Principles: Empowerment and Self-Determination Case 3: Domestic Violence Case 4: Betty: A Case of ...
... abuse (National Center on Elder Abuse, 1998). Seniors are told they are stupid or crazy, a common form of emotional abuse. Caregivers may neglect elders, leading to serious illness, harm, or death. Some older people do not, or are not ...
... abuse can lead to difficulties collaborating on research, training, prevention strategies, and interventions. For the purposes of this book, elder abuse includes the following: • Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; financial ...
... abuse. Some states use functional status, such as the lack of decision ... abuse experienced by victims. While women make up the majority of elder abuse victims ... emotional, physical, or financial abuse, but men are more likely to be ...
... emotional abuse, financial exploitation and abandonment. Women, on the other hand, were more likely to be perpetrators of neglect (NEAIS, 1998, p. 7). Elder sexual assault victims are overwhelmingly female and the perpetrators male ...
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 |