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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... participants needed to get the job done versus having “too many cooks in the kitchen.” We recognize that more could be said about some issues not fully addressed in this text. One example of an issue we struggled with is abuse in long ...
... participation in this project would not have been possible without the loving support of my husband, Jan, and my sons, Kevin and Ethan. Thank you for your patience and understanding for the many late dinners, lost weekends, and ...
... participants from domestic violence and APS in 1988. In 1992, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) sponsored a national forum to address the needs of older abused women. As a result of this forum, AARP provided funding to ...
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Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |