Most Recent Articles from Aging

• Improving the police response to domestic elder abuse victims 

  Police must see elder abuse as not just domestic violence. Unlike in child abuse cases, elder self-determination is a factor. Officers must be...

  03/22/96 by Martha R. Plotkin · More from publication

• Making the perpetrator pay: collecting damages for elder abuse, neglect and exploitation 

  Jan 1992, California enacted The Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act. For the first time financial exploiters of the elderly may...

  03/22/96 by Marc B. Hankin · More from publication

• Meeting the special needs of older battered women 

  Older women who are abused by their husbands are both battered wives and abused elders. The physical abuse usually started when the women were...

  03/22/96 · More from publication

• How adult protective services evolved, and obstacles to ethical casework 

  Adult protective services (APS) begin in the US with the 1958 National Council on Aging's ad hoc committee of social workers. There has been both...

  03/22/96 by Paula M. Mixson · More from publication

• Self-Neglecting Elders: A Clinical Dilemma 

  Edited by Eloise Rathbone-McCuan, Ph. D., and Dorothy R. Fabian. 1992. Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Rd., P.O. Box 5007, Westport, CT....

  03/22/96 · More from publication

• Keeping frail seniors independent through money management 

  The JFCS has a special program to help the frail elderly handle their finances. They offer Personal Affairs Management (PAM) to frail seniors...

  03/22/96 by Jean Toparek · More from publication

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