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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... nursing home, Muryl, age 86, had all of her rings stripped from her fingers while she slept. The nursing home staff said that they had fallen off and been lost in the bedclothes. The rings were never found. Several days later Muryl's ...
... care facilities. The elder abuse field has historically separated the harm that occurs in the community (known as domestic elder abuse) from that which occurs in facilities, such as nursing homes, community-based residential facilities ...
... care settings. To illustrate: if a nursing home resident is abused by her spouse or raped by an employee of the facility, then responses from regulatory, health care, APS, long term-care ombudsman, criminal justice, and civil justice ...
... nursing homes and, in some states, to also investigate complaints in other types of LTCF including assisted living facilities and board and care homes (Anonymous, 2002). The Department of Justice provides funding through several of its ...
... nursing home abuses, are being heard and reported by the civil courts. This change is due to growing awareness by victims and their family members, new laws, increased training of lawyers and other professionals about old and new civil ...
Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |