The Dimensions of Elder Abuse
Perspectives for Practitioners
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Open AccessA personhood and citizenship training workshop for care home staff to potentially increase wellbeing of residents with dementia: intervention development and feasibility testing of a cluster randomised controlled trial
In the UK, one third of people with dementia live in residential care homes, a sector where high staff turnover negatively affects continuity of care. To examine the effect of including personhood and citizens...
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Older Women as the Invisible Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from Two European Research Projects
The issue of elder abuse was acknowledged as a social problem several decades after the recognition of child abuse and domestic violence. Gender-based violence and abuse amongst older women can be overlooked b...
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Gender Issues in Elder Abuse
Over the last decade, the issue of elder abuse has gained importance at international and European Union (EU) levels. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Network of the Prevention of Elde...
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Elder Abuse and Adult Safeguarding in UK
This chapter will provide an overview of elder abuse, with a particular focus on the UK. The issues and developments that have occurred globally will be briefly explored. Over the last ten years, there has bee...
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Quality of Life of Abused Older Women: Moderating Influence of Co** Mechanisms
In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) brought global attention to elder abuse and the need for prevention in issuing the Toronto Declaration. With the rise in proportion of people aged 60 and over, but ...
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Open AccessPERFECTED enhanced recovery (PERFECT-ER) care versus standard acute care for patients admitted to acute settings with hip fracture identified as experiencing confusion: study protocol for a feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial
Health and social care provision for an ageing population is a global priority. Provision for those with dementia and hip fracture has specific and growing importance. Older people who break their hip are reco...
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Elder Abuse and Neglect, Institutional
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European map of prevalence rates of elder abuse and its impact for future research
This article aims to map existing prevalence research on abuse and neglect of older people and to provide a critical overview of existing methodologies, which have been adopted to survey the prevalence rates o...
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Responding and Intervening in Elder Abuse and Neglect
This paper will provide an overview and discussion of the causal and risk factors relating to elder abuse, together with some of the interventions that might be used. The issues and developments that have occu...
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Elder Abuse, Older Women and Considerations of Mental Health
In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on violence and abuse within society and in particular the abuse and neglect of older people. It therefore seems appropriate to consider the potential role ...
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Conclusion
Elder abuse looks set to become one of the phenomena of interpersonal violence that will create needs for social policies well into the next millennium. At a macro-political level, we need to consider the conc...
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Introduction
Elder abuse is the largely unknown violence phenomenon of the 1990s. Although recognised for centuries and reported in the professional press increasingly since the mid-1970s, it is the least acknowledged of t...
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Medical Dimensions
The previous three chapters have aimed to provide an overview and general framework concerning elder abuse. For the reader in this chapter, the various threads that constitute a medical perspective are woven t...
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Dimensions of Interventions
The last two chapters have developed a focus on differing aspects of the professional knowledge base that are useful for practitioners to be familiar with in their work in this area. The focus of this next cha...
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Contemporary Overview
During the 1980s and 90s the term ‘abuse’ became synonymous with a multitude of behaviours and stereotypes that individuals sometimes experience, both in the private world of the family and in the public domai...
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Institutional Dimensions
The previous chapter looked at elder abuse in relation to family violence in more general terms. Notwithstanding this perspective, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that there are a range of enviro...
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Legal Dimensions and Issues
The previous chapter provided an overview of medical perspectives on elder abuse to give the reader a knowledge and understanding of the dimensions involved. The purpose of this chapter is to present a similar...
