Elder Abuse and Mistreatment

by Mellor; Joanna

• ISBN13: 9780789030238
• ISBN10: 0789030233
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-07-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 victims of abuse and family mistreatment. The book addresses all forms of abuse and neglect, examining the value issues and ethical dilemmas that social workers face in providing service to elderly abuse victims and their families. Elder abuse and neglect is a social problem of increasing concern to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in the United States and around the world. Elder Abuse and Mistreatment incorporates health, mental health, and social service perspectives that assist social work and health care professionals with interdisciplinary teamwork. The book examines the Elder Justice Act, the Madrid 2002 International Plan of Action on Ageing, new and emerging practice modalities and international models such as shelter programs and support groups, and the latest research on practice methods, elder abuse with special populations, and interventions with victim-abuse dyads. Topics examined in Elder Abuse and Mistreatment include: abuse reporting statutes the roles of agencies involved in abuse investigations service commonly needed by victims funding sources common impediments to service delivery adult protective services (APS) local, state, and federal policies social and economic inclusion self-determination long-term care and nursing homes consumer fraud and financial abuse dependency and compliance and much more Elder Abuse and Mistreatment: Policy, Practice, and Research is an essential resource for educators and students of social work, nursing, and public health, and for social work practitioners.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xvii
Foreword	xix
Preface	xxi
Introduction	1	(4)
Patricia Brownell
OVERVIEW AND POLICY
Communities Respond to Elder Abuse	5	(30)
Lisa Nerenberg
A Policy Perspective on Elder Justice Through APS and Law Enforcement Collaboration	35	(22)
Christopher Dubble
Social Inclusion: An Interplay of the Determinants of Health--New Insights into Elder Abuse	57	(24)
Dr. Elizabeth Podnieks
PRACTICE
Self-Determination and Elder Abuse: Do We Know Enough?	81	(22)
L. Rene Bergeron
Use of a Single Page Elder Abuse Assessment and Management Tool: A Practical Clinician's Approach to Identifying Elder Mistreatment	103	(20)
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	123	(14)
Daniel A. Reingold
Consumer Fraud and the Elderly: A Review of Canadian Challenges and Initiatives	137	(8)
Carole A. Cohen
Psycho-Educational Support Groups for Older Women Victims of Family Mistreatment: A Pilot Study	145	(16)
Patricia Brownell
Deborah Heiser
RESEARCH
Ethical and Psychosocial Issues Raised by the Practice in Cases of Mistreatment of Older Adults	161	(26)
Marie Beaulieu
Nancy Leclerc
Elder Abuse and Neglect Among Veterans in Greater Los Angeles: Prevalence, Types, and Intervention Outcomes	187	(18)
Ailee Moon
Kerianne Lawson
Maria Carpiac
Eleanor Spaziano
Hearing the Voices of Abused Older Women	205	(24)
Jill Hightower
M. J. (Greta) Smith
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	229	(20)
Mebane E. Powell
Jacquelin Berman
Index	249