Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Older Persons: Strategies for Assessment and Intervention - Softcover
Elder abuse is a topic most people don't want to discuss, but one that's a problem we must address. Let this guidebook help you sensitize caregivers to abuse indicators and then equip them with effective intervention strategies for defusing volatile situations. Nursing facility and home health care agency staff, as well as nurses, doctors, and social workers, will find practical advice from recognized experts on identifying the characteristics of victims and perpetrators assessing physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse and neglect working with abused older adults and family members after abuse is detected training staff in long-term care facilities to detect and prevent abuse documenting cases of mistreatment Be a part of the solution. Start by ordering your copy of Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Older Persons today.
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About the Author:
Lorin A Baumhover, Ph.D., has served on the graduate faculty of the University of Alabama since 1971 and as Director of the Center for the Study of Aging since 1972. S Colleen Beall, M.S.W., Dr.P.H. is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alabama.
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