02867oam 2200661I 450 991096130990332120251116233143.01-136-69920-10-203-38705-81-299-31974-21-136-69913-910.4324/9780203387054(CKB)2560000000100763(EBL)1154323(OCoLC)831117920(SSID)ssj0000856316(PQKBManifestationID)12378259(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856316(PQKBWorkID)10806699(PQKB)10448463(OCoLC)830663433(MiAaPQ)EBC1154323(Au-PeEL)EBL1154323(CaPaEBR)ebr10676590(CaONFJC)MIL463224(FINmELB)ELB137752(EXLCZ)99256000000010076320180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInternational perspectives on elder abuse /edited by Amanda Phelan1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (251 p.)Routledge advances in health and social policyDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-82337-6 0-415-69405-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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,Routledge advances in health and social policy.Abused older peopleOlder peopleAbuse ofAbused older people.Older peopleAbuse of.362.6/82Phelan Amanda1878618MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961309903321International perspectives on elder abuse4491410UNINA