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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problem Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder abuse with newly examined populations to create an understanding of how to design service plans for... Read more
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction (Patricia Brownell)
- OVERVIEW AND POLICY
- Communities Respond to Elder Abuse (Lisa Nerenberg)
- A Policy Perspective on Elder Justice Through APS and Law Enforcement Collaboration (Christopher Dubble)
- Social Inclusion: An Interplay of the Determinants of Health—New Insights into Elder Abuse (Elizabeth Podnieks)
- PRACTICE
- Self-Determination and Elder Abuse: Do We Know Enough? (L. René Bergeron)
- Use of a Single Page Elder Abuse Assessment and Management Tool: A Practical Clinician’s Approach to Identifying Elder Mistreatment (Patricia A. Bomba)
- An Elder Abuse Shelter Program: Build It and They Will Come: A Long Term Care Based Program to Address Elder Abuse in the Community (Daniel A. Reingold)
- Consumer Fraud and the Elderly: A Review of Canadian Challenges and Initiatives (Carole A. Cohen)
- Psycho-Educational Support Groups for Older Women Victims of Family Mistreatment: A Pilot Study (Patricia Brownell and Deborah Heiser)
- RESEARCH
- Ethical and Psychosocial Issues Raised by the Practice in Cases of Mistreatment of Older Adults (Marie Beaulieu and Nancy Leclerc)
- Elder Abuse and Neglect Among Veterans in Greater Los Angeles: Prevalence, Types, and Intervention Outcomes (Ailee Moon, Kerianne Lawson, Maria Carpiac, and Eleanor Spaziano)
- Hearing the Voices of Abused Older Women (Jill Hightower, M. J. (Greta) Smith, and Henry C. Hightower)
- Effects of Dependency on Compliance Rates Among Elder Abuse Victims at the New York City Department for the Aging, Elderly Crime Victim’s Unit (Mebane E. Powell and Jacquelin Berman)
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Mellor, Joanna; Brownell, Patricia
