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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... 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 Self-Neglect Guiding Principles in ...
... exploitation. (The definition of vulnerable adult varies based on state statute but, in general, vulnerable adults ... financial exploitation of elders and younger people with Historical Context 7 Systems' Responses to Elder Abuse.
... financial exploitation of elders and younger people with disabilities (Otto, 2002). The real impetus for states to provide APS came with the passage of Title XX of the Social Security Act in 1974. Broad language in the Act gave ...
... financial fields, public health, service providers, and law enforcement should be involved, as appropriate, in a ... financial losses resulting from abuse, neglect, or exploitation; restraining orders or injunctions; divorce or separation; ...
... financial exploitation (Anonymous, 2002). The Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services created a public awareness campaign titled “Not Forgotten.” The U.S. Department of Justice's Nursing Home Initiative has produced ...
Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |