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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... Plan Phase IV: Implementation of the Intervention Plan Multi-Agency Case: Doris Single-Agency Case: Estelle Enhancing Victim Safety Through Collaboration Elder Abuse Can Lead to Serious Harm or Death Case Illustration A Collaborative ...
... safety planning and taking the next steps. Professionals may become frustrated because they do not know how to offer helpful interventions. Persons living in facilities also face barriers to living free from abuse. Some victims may have ...
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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 |