Safeguarding Older People from Abuse: Critical Contexts to Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781447305675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str.

Angie Ash

Opis

The abuse of older people in health and social care facilities is increasingly recognized as a serious problem, but most scandals about or inquiries into the abuse of elders fail to address much less challenge the social, economic, and cultural contexts in which such abuse is allowed to take place. "Safeguarding Older People from Abuse" provides this much-needed challenge, illustrating the ways in which ageism, lack of resources, target-driven policy, and organizational cultures of blame and scapegoating facilitate elder abuse. Angie Ash argues for the development of ethically driven, research-informed policies and practices that will better protect our seniors."

Spis treści

Contexts to safeguarding older people from abuse; The need for theory, critical thinking and practice; The abuse of older people; Adult protection, safeguarding and personalisation; Public policy implementation in street-level bureaucracies; A case study of street-level policy implementation to protect older people from abuse; Discretion and dissonance in adult protection work; Cultures and contexts of complicity; Ethics, policy and practice; Safeguarding older people from abuse: ethical futures.