International perspectives on elder abuse / edited by Amanda Phelan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelan, Amanda.

Series:

Routledge advances in health and social policy.

Routledge advances in health and social policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abused older people.

Older people--Abuse of.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic.Opening with an examination of what elder abuse is, Amanda Phelan sets it in a theoretical context and looks at assessment and approaches to the issue in residential and community care environments. The book then presents a range of country studies, which provide an overview of the context of elder abuse in the country and a discussion of related policy,

Contents:

Introduction

Foucault : the flexible critique of welfare

Goffman : interaction and identity negotiations

Bourdieu : field, symbolic violence and domination

Luhmann : welfare in communicative systems

Neo-institutional theory : myths and legitimacy

Risk theory : normality, deviation and neo-liberalism

Transcending the approaches.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-69920-1

0-203-38705-8

1-299-31974-2

1-136-69913-9

9780203387054

OCLC:

831117920