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.
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“. . . 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 Gerontology
“. . . goes a long way to help theorists and practitioners by presenting new data and taking a fresh look at existing information . . . required reading for anyone who wishes to act, speak, write, or teach about elder abuse . . . timely, unique, and necessary.”–Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Elder Abuse Report
“. . . goes a long way to help theorists and practitioners by presenting new data and taking a fresh look at existing information . . . required reading for anyone who wishes to act, speak, write, or teach about elder abuse . . . timely, unique, and necessary.”–
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Efforts to substantiate the existence of familial abuse of the elderly are, without question, elusive in the present, and unfathomable in the past. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adult child primary caregivers, discussing grandfathers, nonabused elders, environmental press model, funded home care, elder mistreatment, elder ahuse, elder neglect, discussing sons, domestic violence against the elderly, elder abuse research, solidarity mode, elderly abuse, three model projects, material abuse, adult child caregivers, discussing fathers, younger kin, active neglect, battered parents, caregiving effort, passive neglect, secondary caregivers, elder maltreatment, explanatory base Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Efforts to substantiate the existence of familial abuse of the elderly are, without question, elusive in the present, and unfathomable in the past. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adult child primary caregivers, discussing grandfathers, nonabused elders, environmental press model, funded home care, elder mistreatment, elder ahuse, elder neglect, discussing sons, domestic violence against the elderly, elder abuse research, solidarity mode, elderly abuse, three model projects, material abuse, adult child caregivers, discussing fathers, younger kin, active neglect, battered parents, caregiving effort, passive neglect, secondary caregivers, elder maltreatment, explanatory base Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Onondaga County, The Gerontologist, The Battered Elder Syndrome, United States, Informal Care Providers, Preliminary Findings, West Virginia, San Francisco, Free Press, Lizzie Borden, Sage Publications, University Center, Location Research Purpose, Type Date, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, College Park, Institute of Gerontology, John Wiley, Journal of Gerontological Nursing, San Antonio, University of Maryland, Basic Books, King Lear, Study of Maltreatment of the Elderly New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Abuse and Maltreatment of the Elderly by Jordan I. Kosberg on 5 pages
- Father And Child (43 Light St) (Harlequin Intrigue) by York on page 118, and page 120
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 39, and page 47
- Aging and the Environment: Theoretical Approaches (Gerontological Monograph ... of the Gerontological Society, No. 7.) by M. Powell Lawton on page 329, and page 330
- The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research by David Finkelhor on page 64, and page 263
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- Intergenerational Ambivalences, Volume 4: New Perspectives on Parent-Child Relations in Later Life (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research) by K. Pillemer on 4 pages
- Violence in Intimate Relationships: Examining Sociological and Psychological Issues by Nicky Jackson PhD on page 214, page 215, and page 216
- The Graying of the World: Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly? by Laura K Olson on page 52, and page 57
- Gerontological Social Work Practice: Issues, Challenges, and Potential by Enid Opal Cox on page 139, and page 140
- Elder Abuse: Selected Papers From The Prague World Congress On Family Violence (Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neg) by Elizabeth Podnieks on page 51, and page 52
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