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Advances in Elder Abuse ResearchKeep Control: A Co-designed Educational and Information Campaign Supporting Older People to Be Empowered against Financial Abuse

Advances in Elder Abuse Research: Keep Control: A Co-designed Educational and Information... [Empowerment is understood as a psychological and social construct. It connects individual and collective well-being as well as social change with strengths and competencies, ecological resources, environmental helping systems and networks as well as direct collective action (Drury et al. 2005; Hur 2006; Zimmerman and Rappaport 1988). At the core of best practice interventions which seek to maximize older people’s well-being and reduce their vulnerabilities to any form of abuse is recognition of older people’s agency. Fostering and protecting the agency of the older person and empowering them to optimize their strengths and resources underscores best practice in social and health care interventions for older people (Mulligan et al. 2012; Shearer et al. 2012). This chapter provides a description of the Keep Control campaign. This intervention resulted from a process of authentic and meaningful collaboration between representatives of older people and academic researchers from the National Centre for the Protection of Older People (NCPOP) in University College Dublin. The campaign is a strengths-based preventative intervention which celebrates, protects and fosters the agency and resources of older people. It supports older people to safeguard themselves from financial abuse.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Advances in Elder Abuse ResearchKeep Control: A Co-designed Educational and Information Campaign Supporting Older People to Be Empowered against Financial Abuse

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 24)
Editors: Phelan, Amanda
O’Donnell, Deirdre
Advances in Elder Abuse Research — Jan 2, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-25092-8
Pages
121 –135
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-25093-5_9
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Abstract

[Empowerment is understood as a psychological and social construct. It connects individual and collective well-being as well as social change with strengths and competencies, ecological resources, environmental helping systems and networks as well as direct collective action (Drury et al. 2005; Hur 2006; Zimmerman and Rappaport 1988). At the core of best practice interventions which seek to maximize older people’s well-being and reduce their vulnerabilities to any form of abuse is recognition of older people’s agency. Fostering and protecting the agency of the older person and empowering them to optimize their strengths and resources underscores best practice in social and health care interventions for older people (Mulligan et al. 2012; Shearer et al. 2012). This chapter provides a description of the Keep Control campaign. This intervention resulted from a process of authentic and meaningful collaboration between representatives of older people and academic researchers from the National Centre for the Protection of Older People (NCPOP) in University College Dublin. The campaign is a strengths-based preventative intervention which celebrates, protects and fosters the agency and resources of older people. It supports older people to safeguard themselves from financial abuse.]

Published: Jan 2, 2020

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