Safeguarding Older People from Abuse : : Critical Contexts to Policy and Practice /

Safeguarding Older People from Abuse : : Critical Contexts to Policy and Practice / / Angie Ash.

The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. ‘Scandals’ and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
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Ash, Angie,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acronyms
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contexts to safeguarding older people from abuse
  • The need for theory, critical thinking and practice
  • The abuse of older people
  • Adult protection, safeguarding and personalisation
  • Public policy implementation in street-level bureaucracies
  • A case study of street-level policy implementation to protect older people from abuse
  • Discretion and dissonance in adult protection work
  • Cultures and contexts of complicity
  • Ethics, policy and practice
  • Safeguarding older people from abuse: ethical futures
  • References
  • Index

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