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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... elder. Clearly, data and evidence from the field suggest that elder abuse is an increasingly serious problem in America. But why focus a book on a collaborative or multidisciplinary response to elder abuse? Each of the authors has been ...
... elder abuse) from that which occurs in facilities, such as nursing homes, community-based residential facilities, or assisted living facilities (referred to as institutional abuse). Different systems of response were established; domestic ...
... response. Therefore, as the parameters for this book were plotted, we felt strongly the need to address elder abuse that occurred in any location to encourage collaboration in both domestic and long-term care settings. To illustrate: if ...
... Aging, who help support my work on elder abuse. I am grateful to my co-authors for their friendship and for their vision and commitment to improving the response to elder abuse. —Lori A. Stiegel I want to thank my wife, Charlotte, for ...
... elder abuse (Lachs, Williams, O'Brien, Hurst, & Horowitz, 1997). The number of older ... response from the criminal justice system. In other situations, such as self ... elder abuse and methods that 4 ELDER ABUSE DETECTION AND INTERVENTION.
Contents
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COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |