Elder Abuse and Neglect: Causes, Diagnosis, and Interventional Strategies (Springer Series on Social Work) [Paperback]

Mary Joy Quinn RN MA (Author), Susan K. Tomita MSW PhD (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0826151221 | ISBN-13: 978-0826151223 | Publication Date: June 28, 1997 | Edition: 2

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.

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About the Author

Mary Joy Quinn, RN, MA, has been the Director of the Probate Court of San Francisco Superior Court since 1989. Prior to that, she served as a conservatorship investigator for 12 years. As director, she supervises probate court investigators and examiners and coordinates the activities of the Probate Department. Prior to joining the Probate Court, Ms. Quinn served as a public health nurse and as the director of a psychiatric day treatment center for older adults. Her education includes a BS in General Nursing from the University of Oregon and a MA in Psychology focusing on gerontology from the University of San Francisco.

She has contributed to other publications focusing on elder abuse and neglect, conservatorship and guardianship, undue influence, and remedies for elder abuse and neglect with the civil and criminal courts. She is currently coordinating a state grant that focuses on access to the courts for elders, especially those who have been abused. She is a member of the California Judicial Council Probate and Mental Health Advisory Committee and a commissioner with the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. She is also a board member of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

Susan K. Tomita, MSW, PhD, has long been associated with the Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington. She has also been long active in Seattle Asian-American community issues. She was one of the founders of the Asian Counseling and Referral Service, which provides mental health and other social and health services to Asian immigrants and refugees. Dr. Tomita also helped found the Asian Community Health Clinic, Filipino Drop-in Center and Asian Social Workers of Greater Seattle, among many others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 365 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 2 edition (June 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826151221
• ISBN-13: 978-0826151223
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rampant Elder Abuse and Fraud Colored By Law: Guardianship!, September 28, 2004

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dropSoul "Christina" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elder Abuse and Neglect: Causes, Diagnosis, and Interventional Strategies (Springer Series on Social Work) (Paperback)

Reports of guardians stealing from their wards' bank accounts and other wise abusing guardianship powers are surfacing with disturbing regularity. 'This problem is going to get bigger and bigger,' says E. Bentley Lipscomb, AARP's Florida state director and a former state secretary of elder affairs. - GUARDIANS DRAWING INCREASED SCRUTINY, AARP Bulletin. Read also "The Retirement Nightmare" by Diane Armstrong. Get the real truth about the fraud and abuse of the elderly and not so elderly by a corrupt probate system and guardians. To avoid a guardianship in the State of Florida, and other states, should be of paramount importance. Find out how to protect yourself and your loved ones with alternatives: health care surrogate, durable power of attorney, mediation and more. Consider that if you leave your parents to fend for themselves, and ignore the deterioration associated with aging, a guardian can gain a guardianship over them and their assets, without informing you. That guardianship will nullify the most meticulous of plans

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completa revisión de los malostratos en el anciano, April 18, 2000

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Antonio Yuste Marco (Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elder Abuse and Neglect: Causes, Diagnosis, and Interventional Strategies (Springer Series on Social Work) (Paperback)

Realiza un repaso sistemático del maltrato al anciano, con ricas referencias bibliográficas comentadas. Es realista y aplicaple a otros paises,cuestión no siempre posible con otros textos sobre dicho tema. Como médico especialista en geriatría he de aplaudir a las autoras. Gracias.