The purpose of this study is to investigate problems facing Care Managers regarding their detection of elderly abuse. Firstly, with reference mainly to a precedent study, this paper emphasizes the ...importance of recognizing signs of elderly abuse by Care Managers. Secondly, we examined the ability to recognize signs of elderly abuse by Care Managers in the Fukuoka and Kitakyushu municipalities. The results of this investigation also enabled conclusions to be drawn regarding the attitudes of the Care Managers. It was clear that most of the Care Managers surveyed had encountered elderly abuse. Furthermore, the following issues were furthermore highlighted by this investigation: (1) A need for improvement in the recognition of the signs of elderly abuse. (2) Differences of opinion regarding the merit of the basic license. (3) A need for improvement in the maintenance of training organizations and study support.
In this second edition of their classic volume, the authors present their elder abuse diagnosis and intervention model. This comprehensive model of detection, assessment, and intervention enables the ...practitioner first to identify the type of elder mistreatment, including physical, sexual, psychological, and financial. It then provides systematic and realistic interventions. This updated edition also includes information on legal interventions with suggestions on how the practitioner should act in the courtroom, give testimony, document findings, and prepare for legal involvement with the criminal justice system. Actual legal tools are included in the appendix. This is a classic resource for all health professionals who work with the elderly.
Geronticide Brogden, Mike
2001, 2001-02-15, 20000101
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Overall, the book provides a valuable insight into attitudes to and perceptions of older people. It is especially helpful to have a rigorously researched sociological text that covers the interplay ...between societies and the killing older members who have contributed, developed and supported those societies. Its usefulness to the literature on abuse is clear... I would recommend this book to readers.' \- Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 'This book goes beyond the abuse of the elderly, and "is about, bluntly, the killing of old people" (p.11). For sociologists, criminologists, social workers and carers of the elderly, this book is well worth reading as it is thought provoking and therefore refreshing.' \- International Journal of the Sociology of Law 'This is a thought-provoking book. It uses a variety of strategies to forward its central thesis: older people have always been regarded as a residual group by other members of society presumed to be more productive… This book is a good read and has an important point to make.' \- European Journal of Social Work 'This book addresses elderly homicide and euthanasia, and puts it in a historial and social context. Mike Brogden provides a useful and appropriate critique on the concept of geronticide. The book does assist with the urgency of the need for a major cultural shift in the way we perceive and treat the elderly.' \- International Journal of the Sociology of Law 'This dramatically titled book is a powerful one... Geronticide is a modern term but the concept is ages old. Brogden takes us via history, literature, science, religion, demography, economics, sociology, anthropology, social history and the law... This is not a book for holiday packing but a potent one to remind us of the pervasive and pernicious influence of ageism; society's and our own.' -International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 'Mike Brogden's book on geronticide is both thought-provoking and an eye- opener. His work is a comprehensive study into one of the greatest and most difficult challenges facing our modern world. How will our society cope with the rapidly growing population of the oldest old, and the care for the increasing numbers of old, seriously ill and dying people. The book deals with the sociological, anthropological and literary aspects, revealing the fact that killing older people, on either a voluntary or involuntary basis, has been a theme throughout history... My sincere wish is that this very powerful and useful book should reach all the politicians, administrators and others involved in planning the future with regards to older people, all over the world, in the hope that it would enable us to understand the serious consequences our decisions may have for a very valuable but vulnerable group of still equally worthy members of our society.' \- British Journal of Social Work 'We live in a different world after Harold Shipman. The trial and the resulting public anxiety about trust in professionals has meant that the deliberate and systematic killing of older people is no longer seen as remote or part of other societies. Mike Brogden's overview of the subject starts and finishes with Shipman, but his main discussion explores how geronticide has been and continues to be a feature of "care" for the aged... This book, then, is compelling on its' level of sweeping themes and illuminating in its' often harrowing reports of individual abuse and death. It may also encourage further reading on this subject. At a time when the National Service Framework has made strong calls for anti-ageist values, this book provides evidence of the excess of ageism.' \- Community Care The increasing elderly population poses many economic and ethical questions for modern society. One of the most topical and controversial of these is the debate about euthanasia. Drawing on a variety of historical, contemporary, anthropological and literary sources, this book considers the present day debates about the sanctity of elderly lives and the question of euthanasia. The book shows that killing the elderly, voluntarily or involuntarily, has been a feature of many societies, from the primitive to the present day. Elderly homicide and euthanasia today are most commonly concealed in the home or the care institution, a situation which is attracting increasing professional concern. Geronticide: Killing the Elderly seeks to place the current debate in a wider historical and social context, while providing a comprehensive overview of current academic and professional concerns. This thorough, authoritative book will be a useful, thought-provoking read for anyone involved in working with the elderly.
The purpose of this study is to clarify the structure and the features of "Quasi-Abuse" for the "redefinition of elderly abuse in practice", based on the recognition of abuse of nursing care staff. ...The 5,000 nursing care staff who work in nursing homes across Japan participated in this research and we analyzed 1,143 respondents. The research was conducted from October llth to 25th in 2012. Results show that four factor structures of "Quasi-Abuse" such as "lack of Dignity", "lack of Role", "lack of Autonomy" and "lack of Interchange" were extracted. The comparison between the average of each "lower score" indicates that the recognition of nursing care staff about elderly abuse in relation to lack of "Dignity and Interchange" is high. But the recognition of nursing care staff about elderly abuse in relation to lack of "Role and Autonomy" is low. From the result mentioned above, we now have a clear idea about the following things: 1. The lack of "Dignity, Role, Autonomy and Interchange" in relation to the life of elderly people is 'Quasi-Abuse'. 2. We need to improve the understanding of the nursing care staff regarding the importance of life of the elderly people in relation to "Role and Autonomy", because they tend to overlook this matter.
The objective of this research was to clarify the characteristics of factors that cause families who care for the elderly with dementia (care-receivers) to become aware of the probability that they ...may abuse the elderly in the course of their care-giving lives, in terms of the attributes of family caregivers and the genders of caregivers/care-receivers, and to examine how experts should support these caregivers. We conducted a questionnaire survey among family caregivers, and analyzed the free comments from 819 respondents using text mining. We then carried out correspondence analysis to identify the characteristics of the factors that cause caregivers to become aware of the above-mentioned probability, from the perspectives of family relationships between caregivers and care-receivers as well as their genders. The study results revealed that husbands caring for their wives and sons caring for their mothers tended to be less aware of the probability of neglect elderly care. As for the characteristics of factors causing caregivers to be aware of the probability, we found that husbands/wives caring for their spouses tended to be aware of the probability of neglectful care when they felt the uncertainty of the future, and more factors for this probability were identified when daughters cared for their mothers than when caring for their fathers. We also clarified that when daughters-in-law cared for their fathers/mothers-in-law, if their care-receivers refused to take expert care services, these caregivers felt a greater burden than other family member caregivers. Moreover, it was found that when sons cared for their mothers/fathers, the factors causing these sons to be aware of the probability were different according to the gender of their care-receivers. Our study results generally suggest that, in providing abuse-preventive support to families who care for the elderly with dementia, experts should not take an across-the-board approach for all these families, but should take into account the family relationships between caregivers and care-receivers and their genders in individual cases.
The conventional elderly abuse research is insufficient. We carried out research with home helpers participating in training sessions as subjects in M prefecture. From the result, we grasped the ...characteristics of a son who repeated elderly abuse, and we propound some view points to build a support plan and skills to intervene against elderly abuse. To this end, we chategorized 8 types of elderly abuse; physical, mental, economical, sexual, social, medical and self abuse, and neglect. The characteristic of the son is as follows; 1) The agreement rate with the person who takes care and the person who repeats elderly abuse is high, 2) Elderly abuse occurrence is unrelated to the level of caring, and 3) There are 2 type characteristics of the son, "roughness" and "mental dependence". View points of support plan and intervention skill against elderly abuse are as follows; 1) Social workers have to grasp the actual conditions and progress observation of the son, 2) Social workers have to understand the income and savings of elderly persons in order to prevent economic abuse, and 3) Social workers have to intervene over the long-term to reconstruct the relationship of parent(s) and child.
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