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Social workers should provide counseling, safety planning, and appropriate resources to the patient and caregiver, including: home health services, Meals-on-Wheels, medical transportation services, adult day care, senior centers, substance abuse treatment options, and respite care.
15 mar 2014 · Key terms: elder abuse and neglect; screening instruments for elder abuse, neglect; injury, wound, bruise patterns for elder abuse; mandatory reporting for elder abuse, neglect; and safety...
28 wrz 2020 · Given that cases of elder abuse are often left undetected, it is important for health care providers and social workers providing at-home care services, to equip them with validated tools to detect elder abuse as they are ideally placed to recognize a situation of abuse.
This instrument is comprised of seven sections that reviews signs, symptoms and subjective complaints of elder abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment. There is no actual score. A person should be referred to social services if the following exists: if there is any evidence of mistreatment (abuse, neglect, exploitation, abandonment)
12 mar 2020 · The main theme, ‘Elder abuse in nursing homes, an overlooked patient safety issue’, found in this study indicates an overall lack of awareness of elder abuse and its harm among care managers.
1 lip 2020 · The overall aim was to establish the effectiveness of primary, secondary and tertiary intervention programmes to prevent and/or reduce the occurrence of elder abuse in any setting (organizational, institutional and/or community settings).
15 cze 2024 · Abuse of older people can have serious physical and mental health, financial, and social consequences, including, for instance, physical injuries, premature mortality, depression, cognitive decline, financial devastation and placement in nursing homes.
