Research Catalog

Title

Protecting judgment-impaired adults : issues, interventions, and policies / Edmund F. Dejowski, editor.

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, c1990.

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Additional Authors

Dejowski, Edmund F.

Description

175 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Legal Guardians
• Elder Abuse > prevention & control
• Elder Abuse
• Disabled Persons
• Aged
• Capacity and disability > United States
• Guardian and ward > United States
• Older people > Care > United States
• Older people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Older people > Services for > United States
• Aged > United States > legislation
• Elder Abuse > legislation. > United States
• Legal Guardians > United States > legislation
• United States

Genre/Form

Legislation

Note

• "Has also been published as Journal of elder abuse & neglect, volume 2, numbers 3/4, 1990"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Edmund F. Dejowski -- Evaluating Decisionmaking Capacity in the Elderly : A Review of Recent Literature / Marshall B. Kapp -- Elder Abuse and Guardians of Elderly Incompetents / Lawrence A. Frolik -- Uses of Guardianship as a Protective Intervention for Frail, Older Adults / Madelyn Anne Iris -- A Judicial Menu : Selecting Remedies for the Incapacitated Elder / Bobbe Shapiro Nolan -- Material Abuse of the Elderly : When is Guardianship a Solution? / Kathleen H. Wilber -- Elderly Nursing Home Residents' Need for Public Guardianship Services in Tennessee / David Hightower, Alex Heckert, Winsor Schmidt -- Social Contract, Communities, and Guardians / Erich H. Loewy -- Managing Guardianships of the Elderly : Protection and Advocacy as Public Policy / Lloyd Hull, Gary E. Holmes, Ronald H. Karst -- Avoiding Guardianship / George J. Alexander.

ISBN

1560240547

LCCN

^^^90045236^

OCLC

22240365

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library