Abstract:
The New York State Elder Abuse Prevalence Study is one of the most ambitious and comprehensive studies to quantify the extent of elder abuse in a discrete jurisdiction ever attempted, and certainly the largest in any single American state…The study had three central aims achieved through two separate study components: To estimate the prevalence and incidence of various forms of elder abuse in a large, representative, statewide sample of older New Yorkers over 60 years of age through direct interviews, to estimate the number of elder abuse cases coming to the attention of all agencies and programs responsible for serving elder abuse victims in New York State in a one-year period, …and to compare rates of elder abuse in the two component studies, permitting a comparison of “known” to “hidden” cases, and thereby determining an estimate of the rate of elder abuse underreporting in New York State. [CVRL Note: half of this document are the survey instruments and tables of collected numbers and rates.] (Author Text)