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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... problems, and some were chronically unemployed. Some suffered trauma early in life or throughout their lives. Most older people are loved and cherished, but too many are isolated in facilities or living in loneliness and fear in the ...
... problem has been to look at data collected by APS agencies, because in most states, they are the primary responders to cases of elder abuse and abuse against vulnerable adults. For instance, the report titled The 2004 Survey of State of ...
... problems regarding lost possessions that occurred in nursing homes. Through our professional experiences, each of us has found that the expertise, services, and resources of our respective disciplines were, on their own, inadequate to ...
... problems, as well as physical and cognitive disabilities. Victims and perpetrators come from various racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds. Older victims bring a range of generational, cultural, and spiritual values about ...
... problems, including family violence across the life span, were handled with little interaction with other systems. Historically, crimes against elders were dealt with by the criminal justice system, whereas elder abuse, neglect, and ...
Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |