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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... women and their children for more than 17 years. She has worked with the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence for 14 years. Her published articles, manuals, and booklets on domestic abuse in later life have been distributed ...
... Women STOP Task Force. Ms. Heisler has served on the Texas Medical Association Blue Ribbon Panel on Family Violence and on the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. She has received many awards, including the California ...
... women ages 50 and older who responded to a national health survey answered “yes” to questions about being currently in an abusive relationship. Harris (1996) reviewed the 1985 National Family Violence Resurvey and found that 5.8% of ...
... women: Results of a pilot study. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 1(9), 1173–1179. National Center on Elder Abuse. (1998). National elder abuse incidence study. Washington, DC: Author. Otto, J., & Quinn, K. (1999). The ...
... women and their children. —Bonnie Brandl I am grateful for the encouragement of my parents, Carmela and Salvatore Bitondo; the support of my mentors, Dr. Stephen Greenberg and Dr. David Hyman; and the love of my husband, Jim. Many ...
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 |