Elder Abuse and Mistreatment

ISBN-13: 9780789030238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 280 str.

M. Joanna Mellor; Patricia Brownell

Opis

This is an overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and further research on elder abuse and neglect. The text addresses all forms of abuse and neglect, examining the values issues and ethical dilemmas that social workers face in providing service to elderly abuse victims and their families.

Spis treści

• 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
  

O autorze

Mellor, Joanna; Brownell, Patricia