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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 ...

    Bridget Penhale, Paul Kingston in Family Violence and the Caring Professions (1995)

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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...

    Bridget Penhale, Paul Kingston in Family Violence and the Caring Professions (1995)

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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...

    Paul Kingston, Bridget Penhale in Family Violence and the Caring Professions (1995)