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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... involved in changes in technology, medicine, or space travel. However, most older people lived quiet lives raising families and participating in their communities. They come from a variety of racial, ethnic, economic, and religious ...
... involved in elder abuse cases. Section Three focuses on collaboration by discussing the definitions and benefits, obstacles to success, informal practice-based responses, and team process. Accomplishing the work of the team is addressed ...
... involved in abuse occurring in facilities. A collaborative response to elder abuse is required. Multiple disciplines must work together to ensure a seamless response to victims that promotes their safety and well-being. This book helps ...
... involved with elders on a daily basis, the National District Attorneys Association recognizes that a multidisciplinary approach to prosecuting elder abuses cases should be considered. Individuals and agencies from the medical and ...
... involved only a few systems that did not communicate effectively with each other. As professionals' understanding of the complexity of elder abuse has increased, more programs throughout the country are responding to elder abuse using a ...
Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |