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Elder abuse
— a survey of managers of residential care facilities in Wellington, New Zealand | | Author(s) | Mark Weatherall |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 13, no 1, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 91-100 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Care homes ; Social surveys ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | The study's aim was to establish the occurrence of elder abuse in facilities providing residential care in Wellington, New Zealand. All licensed facilities providing residential care were contacted, and face to face interviews were conducted with 26 managers responsible for 27 facilities. 92% of the managers were able to identify at least one resident in the last year who had been subjected to elder abuse. For 31% of facilities, elder abuse was a factor in admission of at least one resident. The most frequently identified form of abuse was psychological, followed by financial and physical abuse. When asked to identify the person responsible for a particular instance of abuse, a spouse, child or another relative was nominated in 63% of instances. Services which arrange extra home support or respite care, were the most frequent contact for particular instances of abuse, followed by direct discussion with family and contact with the police. Although the Elder Abuse Program run by Age Concern New Zealand is well known to managers, their contacts with the Program were infrequent. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010926214 A |
| Classmark | QNT: KW: 3F: 7YN |
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