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Dilemmas and ethics — social work practice in the detection and management of abused older women and men
Author(s)	Gail Wilson
Journal title	Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 14, no 1, 2002
Pages	pp 79-94
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Elder abuse ; Older men ; Older women ; Social ethics ; Attitude ; Social workers ; Social surveys.
Annotation	Social workers in one multi-ethnic area of the UK were interviewed on the subject of elder abuse. They produced a dominant discourse that ignored issues of emancipatory practice relating to diversity and difference (gender and ethnicity), and that oversimplified the complexity of elder abuse cases. They worked in an organisational climate that provided insufficient resources to deal with cases of abuse once identified, and that imposed performance indicators that took no account of practical and ethical aspects of the abuse of older women and men. It was rare for a case of elder abuse to have a good outcome, hence staff were faced with situations (defined as dilemmas) where no decision was likely to benefit service users. Ethical practice gave way to avoidance of ethical issues and a reliance on guidelines and management aims. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040512202 A
Classmark	QNT: BC: BD: TQ: DP: QR: 3F
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