Safeguarding Adults

Scamming and Mental Capacity

Lee-Ann Fenge, Sally Lee, Keith Brown, Lee-Ann Fenge, Sally Lee, Keith Brown, Author

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781526424785
  9781526424778
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526425713
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

Provides busy social work and health care practitioners with an accessible guide to adult safeguarding in the context of mental capacity and financial abuse. Drawing on evidence and contemporary examples from practice this book will help readers understand the new landscape of safeguarding adults since the implementation of the Care Act 2014 and the introduction of Adult Safeguarding Boards. There are chapters on the current political landscape of adult social work, specific issues and contexts that make people vulnerable (social isolation, mental capacity, dementia), and important methods of assessment and intervention. A range of pedagogical features are also used to aid learning and understanding including the use of case studies, reflection points, brief exercises and further reading.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle
• Ads
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Authors and Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 The New Landscape of Adult Safeguarding
• 2 Adult Safeguarding and Financial Abuse from Scams
• 3 Developing Understanding of the Nature of Scams and the Role of Trading Standards
• 4 Loneliness, Well-Being and Scam Involvement
• 5 Dementia, Safeguarding and Scam Involvement
• 6 Mental Capacity, Safeguarding and Considering Best Interests
• 7 Developing an Understanding of the National Trading Standards Scams Team
• 8 Doorstep Crime: Rogue Trading and Distraction Burglary
• Appendix: The Language of Scammers
• References
• Index