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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 ...
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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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Conclusion
Elder abuse looks set to become one of the phenomena of interpersonal violence that will create needs for social policies well into the next millennium. At a macro-political level, we need to consider the conc...
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Introduction
Elder abuse is the largely unknown violence phenomenon of the 1990s. Although recognised for centuries and reported in the professional press increasingly since the mid-1970s, it is the least acknowledged of t...
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Medical Dimensions
The previous three chapters have aimed to provide an overview and general framework concerning elder abuse. For the reader in this chapter, the various threads that constitute a medical perspective are woven t...
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Dimensions of Interventions
The last two chapters have developed a focus on differing aspects of the professional knowledge base that are useful for practitioners to be familiar with in their work in this area. The focus of this next cha...
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Contemporary Overview
During the 1980s and 90s the term ‘abuse’ became synonymous with a multitude of behaviours and stereotypes that individuals sometimes experience, both in the private world of the family and in the public domai...
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Institutional Dimensions
The previous chapter looked at elder abuse in relation to family violence in more general terms. Notwithstanding this perspective, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that there are a range of enviro...
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Legal Dimensions and Issues
The previous chapter provided an overview of medical perspectives on elder abuse to give the reader a knowledge and understanding of the dimensions involved. The purpose of this chapter is to present a similar...
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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...
