Safeguarding Older People from Abuse

Critical Contexts to Policy and Practice

Ash, Angie, Angie Ash

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781447305668
• eBook ISBN: 9781447320890
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

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 and cultural context to the abuse of older people.

This critical and challenging book makes a strong case for the development of ethically-driven, research-informed policy and practice to safeguard older people from abuse. Drawing on findings of original UK research and framed in an international context, it illustrates ways in which ageism, under-resourced services to older people, target-driven health and social care policy and services, and organisational cultures of blame and scapegoating, are a powerful yet invisible backcloth to elder abuse.

Safeguarding older people from abuse will be essential reading for policy makers, politicians, professionals, campaigners, researchers and educators, and those working in criminal justice fields.

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Table of contents

• Coverpage
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acronyms
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• One: Contexts to safeguarding older people from abuse
• Two: The need for theory, critical thinking and practice
• Three: The abuse of older people
• Four: Adult protection, safeguarding and personalisation
• Five: Public policy implementation in street-level bureaucracies
• Six: A case study of street-level policy implementation to protect older people from abuse
• Seven: Discretion and dissonance in adult protection work
• Eight: Cultures and contexts of complicity
• Nine: Ethics, policy and practice
• Ten: Safeguarding older people from abuse: ethical futures
• References