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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... group that working in isolation meant that each could see just one piece of the mosaic. Only when the pieces were put together could the group see the full picture. This book is divided into five sections. Section One describes the ...
... groups will impact the types of programming that will need to be created to effectively intervene in cases of elder abuse. Even as the numbers increase, professionals also recognize that elder abuse cases are complex and diverse. Some ...
... groups. These programs are still scattered throughout the country, but modest improvements have been made in the availability of specialized services for older abused women. In other communities, such as Phoenix and San Francisco, abuse ...
... groups composed of those professionals (Office of Justice Programs, 2000). Multidisciplinary Approaches to Elder Abuse Historically, systemic responses to elder abuse were not collaborative and often involved only a few systems that did ...
... groups have significantly different perceptions about what behavior constitutes elder abuse (Anetzberger, 1998; Hudson & Carlson, 1999; Moon, 2000). Professional lexicons define the forms of elder abuse based on the conventions that ...
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 |