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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... funded grants. In 2004, the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute received funding under the National Institute of Health's Roadmap Initiative to develop an interdisciplinary research consortium on elder self-neglect. Candace J ...
... funding, and social change. This book provides the framework to begin and to build on multidisciplinary approaches at the local, state, and national levels toward ending elder abuse. This page intentionally left blank Introduction ...
... federal employee works exclusively on elder abuse issues (Breaux & Hatch, 2002). National funding on elder abuse is a fraction of all federal spending on abuse. “The federal government spends Historical Context 5 Historical Context.
... funding and programming through the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program and the Older Americans Act. Social Service Block Grant funds are used to support APS agencies in less than half of the states nationwide. The Older ...
... funded in 1989 through the Older Americans Act by the Administration on Aging. Since 1998, the National Center on Elder Abuse has been administered under the auspices of the National Association of State Units on Aging with partners at ...
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 |