Elder Abuse-Chapter 30:Guidelines for TreatmentDeborah HendersonDuane VarbleJeffrey A. Buchanan
The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act sets minimum standards for state laws overseeing the reporting of child abuse and neglect.4 Forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands mandate that ...
Screening for intimate partner violence, elder abuse, and abuse of vulnerable adults: US Preventive Services Task Force final recommendation statement. JAMA. 2018;320(16):1678-1687. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.14741ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 20. US Preventive Services Task Force. Intervention...
for paste-type drugs and juice-type drugs (i.e., decoctions), which present as liquid medicine extracted from multiple herbals by mixing and boiling them together, both can be prescribed by qualified clinicians without the need for any approval, though they are classified as prescription drugs. ...
frailty [OR (95% CI) = 0-.47-0.82] (135). Lack of dietary nutrient quality may also accelerate the progression of frailty, with a recent systematic review reporting that micronutrients such as folate, β-carotene, and vitamins A, C and E associate with the development of frailty (136)....
Elderly people who abuse substances are at greater risk for being abused than those who do not. Dependence of the caregiver on the care recipient, typically financial, has been associated with an increased probability of physical and psychological abuse. The purpose of screening is to determine ...
AMA releases guidelines for treatment of elder abusedoi:10.1016/s0197-4572(06)80123-0NoneELSEVIERGeriatric Nursing
A community dialogue series on ethics and elder abuse: guidelines for decision-making. Journal ofElderAbuse andNeglect 1997; 9:33-50.Anetzburger, G.J., Dayton, C. and McMonagle, P., (1997), 'A Community Dialogue Series on Ethics and Elder Abuse: Guidelines for Decision-Making', Journal...
Elder abuseAdult Protective Servicesolder adultspersons with disabilitiesBackground Elder abuse鈥攁ny knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to people over the age of 60鈥攊mpacts at least 6% of older adults across ...
European council of legal medicine (ECLM) guidelines for the examination of suspected elder abusedoi:10.1007/s00414-018-1880-yE. KellerC. SantosD. CusackM. VliD. FerraraB. LudesP. ManginJ. J. Payne-JamesD. N. VieiraSpringer Berlin Heidelberg...