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Browsing by Subject "Older Persons"

Browsing by Subject "Older Persons"

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  • Ability of Older Adults to Report Elder Abuse: An Emergency Department–Based Cross‐Sectional Study 
    Richmond, Natalie; Zimmerman, Sheryl; Reece, Bryce; Dayaa, Joseph; Davis, Mackenzie; Bowen, Samantha; Iasiello, John; Stemerman, Rachel; Shams, Rayad; Haukoos, Jason; Sloane, Philip; Travers, Debbie; Mosqueda, Laura; McLean, Samuel; Platts-Mills, Timothy (Wiley, 2020)
    OBJECTIVES To characterize assessments of a patient's ability to report elder abuse within the context of an emergency department (ED)–based screen for elder abuse. DESIGN Cross‐sectional study in which participants were ...
  • After Older Adult Maltreatment: Service Needs and Barriers 
    Olomi, Julie; Wright, Naomi; Hasche, Leslie; DePrince, Anne (Traumatic Stress Studies Group, 2019)
    Little research is available specific to the service needs or related barriers of maltreated older adults. Further, no studies have asked at-risk older adults directly for their perspectives on service needs and barriers. ...
  • Decision-Making Based on Social Conventional Rules by Elderly People 
    Komeda, Hidetsugu; Eguchi, Yoko; Kusumi, Takashi; Kato, Yuka; Narumoto, Jin; Mimura, Masura (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2018)
    Information used by older adults engaging in a social decision making task of judging a protagonist as a good or a bad person was investigated. Older (n= 100, 50 women, mean age = 63.6 years) and younger (n= 100, 50 women, ...
  • Design and implementation of an empowerment model to prevent elder abuse: a randomized controlled trial 
    Estebari, Fatemeh; Dastoorpoor, Maryam; Mostafaei, Davoud; Khanjani, Narges; Khalifekandi, Zahra Rahimi; Fouroushani, Abbas Rahimi; Aghababaeian, Hamidreza; Taghdisi, Mohammad Hossein (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2018)
    Background: Older adults are more vulnerable to health risks than younger people and may get exposed to various dangers, including elder abuse. This study aimed to design and implement an empowerment educational intervention ...
  • Development and evaluation of a social inclusion framework for a comprehensive hospital-based elder abuse intervention 
    Du Mont, Janice; Kosa, S. Daisy; Spencer, Charmaine; Yaffe, Mark; Macdonald, Sheila (PLoS One, 2020)
    A framework of social inclusion can promote equity and aid in preventing and addressing the abuse of older adults. Our objective was to build a social inclusion framework for a comprehensive hospital-based elder abuse ...
  • Disparities in Prevalence, Access to Services and Outcomes: for Sexual and Domestic Violence Survivors from Five Underserved Populations 
    Cabral, Andrea; Polanowicz, John (Massachusetts Governor's Council to Address Sexual and Domestic Violence, 2014)
    The following research explores prevalence, key concerns, barriers to accessing services and commonalities amongst the following populations: people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT), immigrants, ...
  • Elder Abuse 
    Lachs, Mark; Pillemer, Karl (New England Journal of Medicine, 2015)
    Although it has probably existed since antiquity, elder abuse was first described in the medical literature in the 1970s.1 Many initial attempts to define the clinical spectrum of the phenomenon and to formulate effective ...
  • Elder Abuse 
    Henderson, Erica; Ervin, Storm (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)
    The Center for Victim Research is assessing the state of the field in victim response specific crime types. This brief summarizes the fast facts and main points of the full synthesis about elder abuse victimization. See ...
  • Elder Abuse and Animal Abuse: Implications and Strategies for Adult Protective Services 
    Arkow, Phil (National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA), 2016)
    This document summarizes a presentation from the 2015 Annual Adult Protective Services Conference, "Animal Abuse, Animal Hoarding and Elder Abuse: Challenge and Strategies for Adult Protective Services." This publication ...
  • Elder Abuse Annual Research Compilation, September 2018-August 2019 
    Unknown author (National Center of Elder Abuse (NCEA), 2019)
    This annual compilation is a reference guide containing elder abuse, neglect and exploitation research that was published during the 2018-2019 calendar year of the NCEA grant. The themes and topics that were prominent in ...
  • Elder Abuse in the COVID-19 Era 
    Han, S. Duke; Mosqueda, Laura (Wiley, 2020)
    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is particularly deleterious to older adults,1 and there has been a massive increase in reports of elder abuse during the pandemic. Reports of elder abuse range from financial scams to ...
  • Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis 
    Yon, Yongjie; Mikton, Christopher; Gassoumis, Zachary; Wilber, Kathleen (The Lancet Global Health, 2017)
    Background: Elder abuse is recognised worldwide as a serious problem, yet quantitative syntheses of prevalence studies are rare. We aimed to quantify and understand prevalence variation at the global and regional levels. ...
  • Elder Abuse Victimization: What We Know from Research- and Practice-Based Evidence 
    Ervin, Storm; Henderson, Erica (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)
    The Center for Victim Research is assessing the state of the field in victim response specific crime types. This synthesis compiles research and practice evidence about elder abuse victimization. The report defines elder ...
  • Elder Abuse: What do We Know From Research and Practice [Slides] 
    Ervin, Storm; Henderson, Erica; Kasunic, Mary Lynn (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2020)
    Center for Victim Research (CVR) is assessing the state of the field in victim response specific crime types and creating research syntheses. These webinar slides provide an overview of the syntheses on the research and ...
  • Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation [Presentation] 
    Unknown author (Investor Protection Trust, 2010)
    The survey was conducted May 20-24, 2010 among a sample of 2,022 adults comprising 987 men and 1,035 women 18 years of age and older living in the Continental United States. The group included 706 adult children with at ...
  • Elderly Victimization and Fear of Crime in Public Spaces 
    Ceccato, Vania; Bamzar, Roya (Academic Archive Online (DiVa), 2016)
    Drawing upon environmental criminology principles and fear of crime literature, this article investigates the types of outdoor places where most crimes against the elderly happen as well as the types of places most feared ...
  • Evaluating Elder Abuse Research Studies 
    Lachs, Mark; Twomey, Mary S. (Center on Elder Abuse, 2012)
    This video is a recording of a podcast sponsored by the Center on Elder Abuse that includes visual slides. The video is part one of a two-part series titled "Elder Abuse Research for Non-Researchers." The collection addresses ...
  • Financial Capacity and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults: Research Findings, Policy Recommendations and Clinical Implications [Author Manuscript] 
    Wood, Stacey; Lichtenberg, Peter (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2017)
    Financial exploitation (FE) of older adults is a social issue that is beginning to receive the attention that it deserves in the media thanks to some high profile cases, but empirical research and clinical guidelines on ...
  • Financial Exploitation and Psychological Mistreatment Among Older Adults: Differences Between African Americans and Non-African Americans in a Population-Based Survey 
    Beach, Scott; Schultz, Richard; Castle, Nicholas; Rosen, Jules (Oxford University Press, 2010)
    To examine racial differences in (a) the prevalence of financial exploitation and psychological mistreatment since turning 60 and in the past 6 months and (b) the experience—perpetrator, frequency, and degree of upset—of ...
  • Fraud versus financial abuse and the influence of social relationships 
    DeLiema, Marti (National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA), 2018)
    In this mixed methods study, fifty-three financial exploitation and fraud cases were sampled from an elder abuse forensic center in California. Data include law enforcement and caseworker investigation reports, victim ...