Term Paper Assignment rough draft by Saturday at 5pm Advocacy Paper Topic: Elder Abuse Please read through and make sure you fully understand before you send me a proposal. Thanks.
FEEDBACK FROM MY PROFESSOR
I have read your draft and you seem to be on the right track. However, there are a few significant missing pieces of information that need to be included. The primary social policy to be explored is the Elder Justice Act which you barely cover. The other two policies you list (Rehab, Public Health) are not really relevant in this paper so you might consider dropping them. The impact on the elderly is not clearly addressed and I direct you to the NYS Elder Abuse Prevalence Study which I have attached and the NYC DFTA website page on elder abuse - https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dfta/services/elder-abuse-crime.page
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| Elder Abuse & Crime - DFTA - New York If you are an older adult who has been abused, you don't have to suffer in silence. Abuse committed by someone you know and trust is called "elder abuse." www1.nyc.gov |
You have also omitted a very important program across 49 states – Elder Abuse Mandatory Reporting. Please include information on this as well.
Regarding the format, I ask that you stick to the outline I provided in the term paper assignment page 2 with each section clearly listed. Example: your introduction should look like this:
I. Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of elder abuse and the social policies and programs such as the Older Americans Act and the Elder Justice Act that address this problem.
The long statement on the OAA should be presented in Section III. The Social Policy and Programs.
In terms of content, be careful of using Wikister or Wikipedia as a source of information – the Turnitin feature will identify it quickly and I will have to give you a failing grade.
In the section – Factors contributing to abuse -- be careful of “blaming the victim” as you state that the elderly contribute to their abuse, please reconsider your conclusions.
You have inadvertently pasted and copied a section twice. See the section that starts with “The several challenges . . .
HHS refers to the Health & Human Services Administration, not Hyper . . . which is a form of diabetes.
Finally, please use the term elder abuse or elder mistreatment, not “elderly abuse”
