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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... statewide and local initiatives have been created to address the needs of victims, hold abusers accountable, improve policies and practices, and raise professional and public awareness. 6 ELDER ABUSE DETECTION AND INTERVENTION.
... policies and practices, and raise professional and public awareness. The primary national organization devoted to elder abuse issues is the NCEA, which was first funded in 1989 through the Older Americans Act by the Administration on ...
... policies are designed to help families and caregivers reduce stress and improve communication. These practices may lead to a calmer caregiver or family member, but they may do nothing to make the victim safer when the dynamics of abuse ...
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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 |