Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Podnieks, Ariela Lowenstein, Jordan I Kosberg

Overview

Get up-to-date information and research on elder abuse—from international authorities!

Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is an invaluable collection of the most important presentation papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence. This comprehensive book presents the latest research and detailed information on the difficult issues surrounding elder abuse around the world. International experts use a multidisciplinary approach to provide ideas and insights to help provide researchers, educators, and practitioners with practical strategies for dealing with the numerous facets of this disturbing issue.

Different types of abuse are explored in detail, including physical, financial, and emotional. This comprehensive source is richly referenced, with helpful tables to clearly explain data valuable to all law and health professionals involved in the issues of elder abuse.

Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence discusses:

• grandparents raising grandchildren
• the elder abuse of custodial grandparents
• combating financial abuse of elders by others
• a study of elder abuse within diverse cultures
• forensic medical examination form for improved documentation and prosecution of elder abuse
• elder abuse in faith communities
• older women, domestic violence, and elder abuse
• elder abuse risk indicators
• elder abuse multidisciplinary teams
  
  

Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is essential reading for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of aging, health, mental health, social services, adult protective services, domestic violence, law, and criminal justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789028242
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/22/2005
Series:	Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neg
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Podnieks, Ariela Lowenstein, Jordan I Kosberg

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: The Risks of Caregiving (Patricia Brownell, Jacqueline Berman, Antoinette Nelson, and Rosemary Colon Fofana)
• The Elder Abuse of Custodial Grandparents: A Hidden Phenomenon (Jordan I. Kosberg and Gordon MacNeil)
• Combating Elder Financial Abuse—A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Growing Problem (Betty Malks, Jamie Buckmaster, and Laura Cunningham)
• Study of Elder Abuse Within Diverse Cultures (Jordan I. Kosberg, Ariela Lowenstein, Juanita L. Garcia, and Simon Biggs)
• A National Look at Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams (Pamela B. Teaster, Lisa Nerenberg, and Kim L. Stansbury)
• A Forensic Medical Examination Form for Improved Documentation and Prosecution of Elder Abuse (Diana Koin)
• Elder Abuse Awareness in Faith Communities: Findings from a Canadian Pilot Study (Elizabeth Podnieks and Sue Wilson)
• An Exploratory Study of Responses in Elder Abuse in Faith Communities (Elizabeth Podnieks and Sue Wilson)
• Older Women, Domestic Violence, and Elder Abuse: A Review of Commonalities, Differences and Shared Approaches (Bridget Penhale)
• Elder Abuse Risk Indicators and Screening Questions: Results from a Literature Search and a Panel of Experts from Developed and Developing Countries (Christen L. Erlingsson, Sharon L. Carlson, and Britt-Inger Saveman)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included
  

What People are Saying About This

Mary Joy Quinn

Mary Joy Quinn, RN, MA, Director, Probate Court, San Francisco Superior Court
This book SHOULD BE IN THE LIBRARY OF ALL THOSE WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ELDER ABUSE AND NEGLECT. The authors have made significant contributions to the field and have advanced our understandings by leaps and bounds. The multidisciplinary team approach to elder abuse has been extremely fruitful in helping practitioners address interventions. The chapters that address that approach provide groundbreaking information both from a research perspective and as to practical applications. The assessment tool developed by Koin and her multidisciplinary team will be especially helpful to the medical field.

Georgia J. Anetzberger PhD

Georgia J. Anetzberger, PhD, ACSW, Assistant Professor or Health Care Administration, Cleveland State University
The editors are to be commended. . . . SOME OF THE CONTENT IS GROUNDBREAKING, covering topics little investigated in the past, such as the abuse of grandparents or elder abuse awareness and response in faith communities.