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International Developments and the Research Agenda
The main emphasis of the book until this point has been to concentrate on developments in the UK, with some reference, where appropriate, to what is happening elsewhere in the world. The focus of this final ch...
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Dimensions of Family Violence
As documented in the previous chapter, there has been, in recent years, a growing international knowledge and awareness concerning elder abuse. This development to an extent mirrors the development in earlier ...
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Social Perspectives on Elder Abuse
Elder abuse has had something of a chequered history in the United Kingdom. The abuse of older people is not a new phenomenon; indeed, researchers have outlined documentary evidence in the US of the existence ...
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Conclusion: Similarities, Differences and Synthesis
This chapter has a number of different but related aims. It is necessary to provide some synthesis of the book as a whole and to present some of the crucial issues for the reader. As a precursor to this, it wo...
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Introduction Family Violence: Framing the Issues
Over the past twenty-five years increasing numbers of health and social care professionals have been faced with victims of family violence and abuse, victims from all ages across the life-course. Abuse is susp...
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Considerations for practice
It is evident that procedures in and of themselves are not a solution to the problem...
