Responding to a “Window of Opportunity”: The detection and management of aged abuse in an acute and subacute health care setting

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 702-714

  Joubert, Lynette ^a   Posenelli, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b St Vincent's Centre for Nursing Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute health care; Aged abuse; Community links; Family; Hospital staff; Screening; Subacute health care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ELDER ABUSE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL WORK;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ELDER ABUSE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 77950779885     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981380902922367     Document Type: Article

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