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| National law enforcement programs to prevent, detect, investigate, and prosecute elder abuse and neglect in health care facilities | | Author(s) | Paul D Hodge |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 9, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 23-41 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Hospital services ; Nursing homes ; Criminal law ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In 1997, a national effort to chronicle the magnitude of institutional elder and vulnerable individual abuse in US health care facilities and the scope of states' law enforcement initiatives and prosecutions of such crimes was undertaken by the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units (NAFCU). 47 of the nation's offices of attorneys general were surveyed about the scope of their patient abuse law enforcement efforts in health care facilities and, to a lesser extent, the community at large. The collected data were analysed and summarised in a national report put together by a professional team which was part of the NAFCU Patient Abuse Working Group. This article summarises the NAMFCU survey data and report. Summary tables indicate that whilst some states have enhanced penalties for crimes against older people, and almost all have registration and criminal background checks for nurses and health care employees, these measures may not be adequate to counter some instances of abuse. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990311003 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: LD: LHB: VX: 3F: 7T |
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