Elder Abuse: Introduction and Overview (NL1008)

Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

Course Overview

Outline:

• Stats and Facts
  Article 1: Elder Abuse Prevalence and Incidence
  
  
• Overview
  Article 2: 15 Questions and Answers
  
  
• Assessment of the Problem  
  Article 3: Laying the Foundation for Theoretical Model Development in Elder Mistreatment  
  Article 4: Elder Abuse in the United States
  
  
• Types of Abuse
  Article 5: Major Types of Elder Abuse 
  Article 6: Nursing Home Abuse – Risk Prevention Profile and Checklist
  Article 7: Preventing Elder Abuse by Family Caregivers        
  
  
• Intervention - Problem Management
  Article 8: Clinical Management of Elder Abuse (Hawthorn Press)
  Article 9: What Does an Ombudsman Do?
  
  
• Legal - Ethical Issues
  Article 10: Restorative Justice: A Healing Approach to Elder Abuse 
  Article 11: Elder Abuse Forensics
  Article 12: Elder Abuse - Types of Crimes

Course Objectives

1. Define and Explain Elder Abuse in terms of:
   1.) Physical Abuse
   2.) Sexual Abuse
   3.) Emotional/psychological abuse
   4.) Neglect/self-neglect
   5.) Abandonment
   6.) Financial/material exploitation
   


2. Discuss Nursing Home Abuse in terms of:
   1.) Cause
   2.) Facility risk factors
   3.) Resident risk factors
   4.) Relationship risk factors
   5.) Abuse prevention planning and strategies
   


3. Describe:
   1.) Caregving/caregiver stress
   2.) The relationship between caregiver stress and physical elder abuse
   3.) Community services available to caregivers and professionals
   


4. Explain the following five steps involved in the clinical management of elder abuse:
   1.) Detection
   2.) Assessment
   3.) Planning
   4.) Intervention, and
   5.) Follow-up


5. Identify the legal - ethical issues related to elder abuse