26 Result(s)
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Paul Kingston
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Health authority and social service co-operation
The question of how Health and Social Services can best work together in order to produce a comprehensive system aimed at prevention, assessment, and intervention needs addressing. The traditional view is that...
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Institutional abuse and neglect
Although the main emphasis in this book has been centred on elder abuse and neglect within the domestic setting, the phenomenon of institutional abuse and neglect needs consideration. Britain along with other ...
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Historical background: definitions and theories
Elder abuse and neglect is the latest discovery in the field of familial violence. Nevertheless its importance as one of the major sociological issues of the 1990s will become quickly and uniquely apparent, as...
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Prevention
Demographic realities mean that in the 1990s health care professionals will have to concentrate on the needs of the elderly, especially the frail ‘oldest old’. Where will the prevention of elder abuse be in th...
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Research
During the 1980s the phenomenon of elder abuse was focused upon by researchers in the field of family violence. The ‘discovery’ of child abuse in the 1960s and domestic violence/spouse abuse in the 1970s led d...
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Interventions
Intervention strategies in cases of elder abuse and neglect have consistently caused anxiety and confusion, not least because of a lack of guidelines (see Chapter 6). This is certainly the case in Britain and ...
