Guides: Aged Care: Elder Abuse

eBooks

Ageing matters (2020) See chapter 2: action on elder abuse
Elder Abuse and Nursing : What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do about It (2017) This is the only research-based and clinically oriented text that applies what is known about different forms of elder abuse in domestic and long-term care settings to the everyday experiences of practicing nurses

Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice. (2016) > 13 - Mistreatment Detection EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES On completion of this chapter, the reader should be able to: Educate nurses and other health care professionals about elder mistreatment (EM) Identify risk factors that make older adults vulnerable for mistreatment Discuss the deleterious effects EM may have on older adults' overall health status Provide a framework for identifying, reporting, and managing cases of EM.