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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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Recognition and assessment of abuse
The recognition of elder abuse (inadequate care) is for the most part still at a very basic level. In cases of physical abuse fairly gross changes need to be present (Figure 3.1) before any degree of certainty...
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Legal issues
As adults elderly people theoretically have full access to all the legal services available to other adult members of society (following crimes of violence, theft, etc.). The situation can be clear cut with a ...
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The abused and the abuser
The focus of attention in the abuse situation has until recently been dominated by the characteristics of the potentially abused person. This spotlighting of the abused is about to alter, however, shifting mor...
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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 ...
