Summary
Contents
Subject index
Considering safeguarding across the life span and placing it within a multiagency context, this book gives students a grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice along the way. It includes reference to the latest legislation, skills for practice, a breadth of contexts and service-user groups, drawing on a range of case studies, activities, reflective questions and recommending reading from across health and social care. Locating age specific concerns in context and divided into sections which cover every stage of life, it addresses questions of culture, gender and problems frequently encountered in practice and what these mean for safeguarding and law.
Safeguarding the older person from abuse and neglect
Safeguarding the older person from abuse and neglect
Chapter aims
This chapter enables the reader to:
- understand the types of behaviours that constitute abuse and neglect of an older person
- develop a critical approach when responding to older people who experience abuse and neglect
- understand the concept of risk in the context of an older person, and how this impacts on safeguarding practice
- apply the principles of safeguarding when working with an older person
- be aware of how to assess risks when safeguarding concerns arise involving an older person
Introduction
With an emphasis on multi-agency working to ensure the safeguarding of the older person from abuse and neglect, this chapter begins by defining safeguarding ...
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