Elder Mediation in Theory and Practice: Study Results From a National Caregiver Mediation Demonstration Project

Crampton, Alexandra

doi:10.1080/01634372.2013.777684

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“…The use of mediation in family disputes involving older people is underresearched, in particular in Australia. Mediation has only recently been practiced in the field of aging in Australia, which can be seen in recent conference presentations and recent publications (Carroll & Smith ; Barry ), but the available research literature is mostly from Canada and the United States (Crawford et al ; Gary ; Gwyther ; Hartman and Baringa‐Burch ; Maida ; Munro ; Schmitz ; Wood ; Cox and Parson ; Parsons and Cox ; Braun & Watts ; Brozowski and Hall ; Crampton ; McCann‐Beranger ).…”

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Elder Mediation and the Financial Abuse of Older People by a Family Member

Bagshaw

Adams

Zannettino

et al. 2015

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Th is article analyzes quantitative and qualitative data collected from three Australian national online surveys with chief executive offi cers of organizations providing services to older people and their families and family mediation agencies, service providers working in those organizations, and older people and their relatives. Respondents were asked to identify risk factors for the fi nancial abuse of older people by a family member, comment on the potential usefulness of elder mediation as a strategy to prevent this commonly reported form of abuse, identify the specialist knowledge and skills an elder mediator would need, and identify other factors to be considered.

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Section: Family Mediation Involving Older Peoplementioning

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Elder Mediation and the Financial Abuse of Older People by a Family Member

Bagshaw

Adams

Zannettino

et al. 2015

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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“…In addition, both the United States and China established elder mediation mechanisms to facilitate voluntary and private communications to reconcile family conflicts (Kardasis & Trippe, n.d.). However, such mechanism has been criticised for coercing consensus and infringing on vulnerable parties (Crampton, 2013). Moreover, elder mediations in the Chinese civil court system are hosted by judges instead of trained personnel.…”

Section: International Practice Of Judicial Social Work With Older Ad...mentioning

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The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute

Wang

Guo²,

Gao

et al. 2023

Int J Soc Welfare

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With the increasing aging of the Chinese population, the issue of safeguarding the welfare of older adults has emerged in social governance. Currently, the primary strategy to address this issue is the guardianship system, which is plagued with various challenges in judicial practice. Through two consecutive and contingent studies, for the first time, this research investigated the status quo of China's guardianship disputes involving older adult wards, analysed the missing role of social workers during the civil litigation process of these disputes, and identified the subtypes of disputes to which judicial social work could contribute. In the first study, 12 members of a district court of Shanghai who have dealt with such disputes were interviewed to explore the potential roles of social workers. Findings highlight the prospects of social workers serving as assessors and conveners during court hearings, supervisors and moderators after the court hearing, and facilitators and carers throughout the litigation process. In the second study, 16 cases of guardianship disputes involving incapacitated older adult wards were extracted from this court through systematic sampling and processed with crisp‐set qualitative comparative analysis. Findings reveal the types of cases in which social workers should intervene. This article advocates for involving professionally trained social workers in China's civil court setting to safeguard incapacitated older adults' welfare further.

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“…In particular, they were concerned that such case filings often arise from family conflict over “what to do with Dad” (or Mom) rather than because of an older adult's actual incapacity. Over time, elder mediation has expanded to include mediation cases involving older adults with an emphasis on elder law cases and family caregiving conflicts in which older adults can be caregivers (such as grandparents raising grandkids) as well as care recipients (Crampton ; Barry ). Studies of elder mediation have reported positive results, demonstrated by, for example, satisfaction and settlement rates (Butterwick and Hommel ).…”

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Escape from the Laboratory: Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Elder and Family Court Mediation

Crampton¹

2016

Negotiation Journal

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The randomized control trial and pre/post research designs are commonly used in applied research and provide common standards for mediation evaluation research. These approaches have many benefits, particularly for evaluating whether mediation as an experimental intervention works or not. Scholars and practitioners, however, want to know not only whether mediation can work as expected but also how it works in a range of real‐world contexts over time. In these contexts, ideal experimental conditions are less likely to occur. Challenges include such circumstances as the following: the number of cases suitable for statistical comparison is insufficient; researchers lack control over how mediation is implemented; researchers lack clear, objective variables to measure; and the variability of mediation outcomes when studied over time makes it difficult to draw conclusions about them. My research has involved each of these challenges, and I have used ethnographic research as a way to evaluate mediation in these contexts. In this article, I explain ethnographic methods and present two studies as examples of mediation evaluation research that began with a standard program evaluation design, and then incorporated ethnography to allow more complete data collection and analysis. My purpose here is not to argue that experimental methods in mediation evaluation research should be displaced but rather to demonstrate how ethnographic methods can be used when the conditions necessary for standard evaluation cannot be met. The two studies used as examples are from an elder mediation study in Ghana and a family court mediation study in the United States.

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Elder Mediation in Theory and Practice: Study Results From a National Caregiver Mediation Demonstration Project

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Elder Mediation and the Financial Abuse of Older People by a Family Member

Elder Mediation and the Financial Abuse of Older People by a Family Member

The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute

Escape from the Laboratory: Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Elder and Family Court Mediation

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