Based on an evaluation of model projects on the subject commissioned by federal grant, this volume focuses on three major areas of inquiry: analyses of data from 328 cases of elder abuse and neglect, an assessment of the model projects' structure, and a case-control study involving 42 victims. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Helping Elderly Victims: The Reality of Elder Abuse (Columbia Studies of Social Gerontology and Aging)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wolf, Rosalie S.

Pillemer, Karl A.

Politics & Government

Columbia Univ. Pr.

This volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators. the authors provide a fresh, historically balanced, empirical and theoretical framework for the view that elder abuse and neglect is an extreme manifestation of family conflict. 
Lisa P. Gwyther, Journal of Gernontology
This volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators.

Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family

Business & Money

Pillemer, Karl

Economics

Praeger

This volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators. the authors provide a fresh, historically balanced, empirical and theoretical framework for the view that elder abuse and neglect is an extreme manifestation of family conflict. Lisa P. Gwyther, Journal of GernontologyThis volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators.

Social Sciences

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