The Dimensions of Elder Abuse
Perspectives for Practitioners
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Bridget Penhale
Social Sciences
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Elder Abuse and Neglect, Institutional
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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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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...
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International Developments and the Research Agenda
The main emphasis of the book until this point has been to concentrate on developments in the UK, with some reference, where appropriate, to what is happening elsewhere in the world. The focus of this final ch...
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Dimensions of Family Violence
As documented in the previous chapter, there has been, in recent years, a growing international knowledge and awareness concerning elder abuse. This development to an extent mirrors the development in earlier ...
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Considerations for practice
It is evident that procedures in and of themselves are not a solution to the problem...
