Format:
Online-Ressource (112 p)
ISBN:
9780789009753
Content:
Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!Self-Neglect examines the social, ethical, medical, and practical implications of the most prevalent form of elder abuse. It can be difficult to diagnose and treat, and it poses ethical questions that cannot be answered simply. Yet it is so common and so destructive that anyone who works with geriatric patients must come to terms with it. Everyone is familiar with the image of the wild-haired elderly recluse hoarding junk in a dilapidated house, but to their neighbors, friends, and f
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface-"" Hector the Collector""; Self-Neglect: An Overview; Indirect Life-Threatening Behavior in Elderly Patients; Ethics and Aging: Confronting Abuse and Self-Neglect; Alcohol Abuse and Self-Neglect in the Elderly; Community Dimensions of Elderly Self-Neglect; Index
Additional Edition:
9781317826101
Additional Edition:
Print version Self-Neglect : Challenges for Helping Professionals
Language:
English
Keywords:
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