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Elder abuse and mistreatment
— policy, practice, and research | | Author(s) | M Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell |
| Publisher | The Haworth Press Inc, Binghamton, NY, 2006 |
| Pages | 258 pp |
| Source | The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. http://www.HaworthPress.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Elder abuse and neglect is a social problem of increasing concern to policymakers, practitioners and researchers in the US and around the world. Key policy concerns include the importance of improving the integration of service systems for elder abuse victims and their perpetrators. Papers are arranged in three sections, the first on policy dealing with: community responses to elder abuse; collaboration between the adult protection service (APS) and law enforcement. Next, on practice issues, explores: self determination; use of an abuse assessment and management tool; a shelter programme in a nursing home; a psycho-educational support group model; and how consumer fraud is being tackled in Canada. Lastly, research, which focuses on: ethical and psychosocial issues; elder abuse and neglect among veterans in Los Angeles; older women and domestic violence; and the relationship between dependency of abusers on their older adult victims and the level of compliance with service plans by the older victims. This monograph has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 46, nos 3/4, 2006. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060918001 B |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: TM2: 7T |
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