Elder Abuse
Concepts, theories and interventions
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Clinical diagnosis and treatment
The most sensitive area of questioning is that concerning actual abusive episodes, asking for detailed verbal and physical incidents.
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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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Family Involvement in Cognitive Recovery following Traumatic Brain Injury
Prior to addressing the specifics of cognitive recovery strategies to be used by the family, issues related to involvement of family members in a rehabilitation program need to be discussed. A great deal is at...
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Cognitive Stimulation in the Home Environment
The rehabilitation of brain impaired individuals, particularly traumatically brain injured persons, has been expanding in terms of breadth and duration in the past several years. One example of this expansion ...
