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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... focusing on elder abuse since 1993. Ms. Stiegel was a member of the National Research Council Panel to Review Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect and served on the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse Board of ...
... focus a book on a collaborative or multidisciplinary response to elder abuse? Each of the authors has been in his or her chosen field for more than 15 years. Several have witnessed elder abuse in their personal lives, often involving ...
... focused increasing attention on elder abuse by holding a series of hearings and issuing several reports. It was not until February 2003, however, that a comprehensive federal response was initiated with the introduction of the Elder ...
... focus on abuse in later life and 34 support groups for older abused women (National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life, 2003). Although some agencies working with people with disabilities have begun creating programs for victims of ...
... focus on domestic violence and sexual assault in later life. In 1994, a task force in Oregon worked with and trained ... focused on domestic abuse in late life. The San Francisco Consortium staffed by the Historical Context 13.
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 |