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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... investigations, planning and research, and, for more than 14 years, law enforcement training. He is a member of the South Carolina Adult Protection Coordinating Council and has served on a number of committees concerning elder abuse ...
... Investigation Phase III: Crafting an Interventiion Plan Phase IV: Implementation of the Intervention Plan Multi-Agency Case: Doris Single-Agency Case: Estelle Enhancing Victim Safety Through Collaboration Elder Abuse Can Lead to Serious ...
... investigate suspected abuse in facilities), whereas regulatory agencies and Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs dealt with institutional abuse. This distinction was logical in the early days, when the perception was that family members ...
... investigate and prosecute cases of patient abuse, neglect, and exploitation in nursing homes and, in some states, to also investigate complaints in other types of LTCF including assisted living facilities and board and care homes ...
... abuse.) APS programs are empowered by states and local communities to accept and investigate reports of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of elders and younger people with Historical Context 7 Systems' Responses to Elder Abuse.
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 |