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| APS investigation across four types of elder maltreatment | | Author(s) | Shelly L Jackson, Thomas L Hafemeister |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 14, no 2, 2012 |
| Pages | pp 82-92 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Services ; Crime ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Little empirical attention has been given to adult protective services (APS) investigations in the United States and the clients involved in those investigations. This study explored aspects of the APS investigation of, and response to, reported elder maltreatment, the perceptions of older victims and their refusal of services. The study also compared findings by the type of maltreatment involved (financial exploitation, physical abuse, neglect, and hybrid financial exploitation). Data were collected from two sources over a two-year period: in-depth interviews with 71 APS caseworkers and 55 of the corresponding elderly victims who experienced substantiated elder maltreatment; and a statewide database that contained 2,142 substantiated cases of elder abuse. Many aspects of the APS investigation and response differed by the type of maltreatment involved. While older victims were generally cooperative and satisfied with the APS intervention, 38 percent would have preferred APS not to investigate their case. Older clients responded differentially to offers of assistance, depending on the type of abuse involved, with victims of physical abuse most likely to refuse services. Future research will want to understand why older victims refuse services in order to develop appropriate interventions. New approaches may be required for intervening in physical abuse cases, including collaborations between APS and domestic violence advocates and the inclusion of services for perpetrators. This is the first large-scale study to examine older victims' refusal of services, and is further enhanced by the analysis of refusal of services by type of abuse, thereby revealing a group of victims for which changes in intervention strategies may be necessary. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026020 A |
| Classmark | QNT: I: TWA: 3F: 7T |
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