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Awareness of elder abuse among community health and social care staff in Northern Ireland
— an exploratory study | | Author(s) | John McLaughlin, Helen Lavery |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 11, no 3, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 53-72 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Attitude ; Social workers ; Medical workers ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | This article reports on one of the first surveys of multidisciplinary staff awareness of elder abuse in this region of the United Kingdom (UK). Forty staff from eight professional groups in the Southern Health and Services Board area were surveyed about their knowledge of elder abuse, the types of help they thought they could offer the abused and the abuser, and the level of abuse in their current caseload. 35% of respondents had cases of physical, psychological, financial, and sexual abuse, as well as care-giver neglect of people aged 65 and over in their caseloads. The findings suggest that while staff had differing levels of awareness of elder abuse, further training is necessary. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000608205 A |
| Classmark | QNT: DP: QR: QT: QK6: 9Y |
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