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ALBANY — With just seven weeks to go in the legislative session, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday that he was determined to win passage of legislation overhauling the state’s response to the abuse and neglect of vulnerable residents. There was reason for him to be both optimistic and cautious. The Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, […]
…ALBANY — Nearly 300,000 disabled and mentally ill New Yorkers face a ”needless risk of harm” because of conflicting regulations, a lack of oversight and even disagreements over what constitutes abuse, according to a draft state report obtained by The New York Times. In 2010, the number of abuse accusations at large institutions overseen by […]
…Generations previously published an article describing the recent phenomenon of criminalizing elder abuse and neglect. Obstacles and knowledge gaps which made effective intervention by professionals and agencies problematic were highlighted, and several promising approaches and practices were described. This article discusses what has occurred in the intervening years and identifies challenges to future efforts to […]
…Background: This research describes issues related to human rights as they arose within the everyday lives of people in nine personal support networks that included adult Australians with an intellectual disability (ID). Method: The research was part of a wider 3-year ethnographic study of nine personal support networks. A major criterion for recruitment was that […]
…Sapphire’s novel Push (1996) and Lee Daniels’s film Precious (2009) provide multiple and intersecting representations of race, gender, and class, which have been recognized and analyzed by film critics and academics. The representations of disability in the novel and film, however, have rarely been connected to these categories of identity (or oppression). Because disability–“obesity,” Down […]
…Older people with learning disabilities may be viewed as potentially vulnerable and therefore in need of safeguarding. Advocacy should be part of the safeguarding process and is useful to ensure the views of older people with learning disabilities are communicated. The role of nurses in advocating for individuals in their care has been made clear […]
…The article discusses personal and system-level strategies and resources to protect children with disabilities who have communication problems, from maltreatment and abuse. It describes the importance of professionals recognizing and reporting abuse from symptoms such as poor physical health, social difficulties and cognitive dysfunctions, that children with disabilities demonstrate. Resumen realizado por el/los autor/es
…Objective: To describe how child maltreatment chronicity is related to negative outcomes in later childhood and early adulthood. Methods: The study included 5994 low-income children from St Louis, including 3521 with child maltreatment reports, who were followed from 1993-1994 through 2009. Children were 1.5 to 11 years of age at sampling. Data include administrative and […]
…As the baby boom generation enters retirement, the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias will grow. Individuals in this generation and beyond will be largely responsible for their own retirement security-yet their ability to manage investments may decline because of diminished financial capacity. This article shares original research findings from an AARP study about […]
…This paper sets out how torture prevention mechanisms have focused on prisons and police stations to the detriment of people in psychiatric and social care institutions, leaving people with disabilities exposed to torture and ill-treatment carried out with impunity. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) sets out human rights norms […]
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