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Placing elder abuse within the context of citizenship
— a policy discussion paper | | Author(s) | Mervyn Eastman, Jessica Harris |
| Corporate Author | Better Government for Older People - BGOP; Action on Elder Abuse - AEA |
| Publisher | Better Government for Older People - BGOP, London, 2004 |
| Pages | 24 pp (BGOP policy discussion series no 1) |
| Source | BGOP, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ. E-mail: mervyn.eastman@bgop.org.uk http://www.bgop.org.uk http://www.elderabuse.org.uk |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Citizenship ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This paper is the outcome of a joint initiative steered by BGOP and AEA, which was instigated at the 2003 AEA annual conference, where BGOP was invited to run a series of workshops demonstrating the policy connections between the Department of Health and Home Office policy document "No Secrets" (2000), elder abuse and an emerging policy direction across Government. The workshop discussions concluded that the protection of older people from abuse necessitates joint working across a raft of organisations and communities - a whole systems approach. A Working Group was established to take forward these discussions and draw in representation from Regional Adult Protection Committees across the country. This paper argues that approaches to elder abuse need to be updated, and that a radical change of perspective is needed to embed prevention and protection within the emerging strategic approach to the ageing UK population. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041124207 B |
| Classmark | QNT: IKC: TM2 |
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