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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... Abuse Additional Considerations for Reporting/Referring Abuse in Facilities Conclusion Systemic Responses to Elder Abuse Adult Protective Services Criminal Justice System Civil Justice System Health Care System Domestic Violence and Sexual ...
... Sexual Abuse in a Licensed Facility Conclusion Team Processes Overview Steps of Team Processes Planning Phase The Work Evaluation Sustaining Team Effort Implementing Change Based on the Evaluation Results Conducting Strategic Planning ...
... abused are contacting advocacy programs such as domestic violence and sexual assault organizations. Many older adults are turning to the civil justice system for remedies to abuse. The increase in numbers of older victims seeking help ...
... sexual assault systems is also appropriate. The victim in a nursing home needs the help those systems can provide as much as when the abuse or rape occurs under the roof of a private dwelling. That said, the idea of writing about ...
... sexual assault and abuse (National Center on Elder Abuse, 1998). Seniors are told they are stupid or crazy, a common form of emotional abuse. Caregivers may neglect elders, leading to serious illness, harm, or death. Some older people ...
Contents
59 | |
COLLABORATION | 101 |
ACCOMPLISHING THE WORK | 173 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 253 |
APPENDIX A | 279 |
REFERENCES | 283 |
INDEX | 295 |