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.
The law and safeguarding the older person in the UK
The law and safeguarding the older person in the UK
Chapter aims
This chapter enables the reader to:
- gain an understanding of the changing landscape of the population of older people in the UK
- understand the intersections between Mental Capacity, legislative requirements under the UK legal framework and professional guidelines, and how these work together to safeguard an older person
- apply the legal principles of safeguarding to an older person who may be at risk
- understand the legislative framework for Chapter 14
Introduction
The phenomenon of abuse against the older person has existed through society for many years. Taking the form of physical, sexual, emotional/psychological, financial, neglect, discriminatory and organisational abuse, ...
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