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The clinical epidemiology of crime victimization in older adults
— a multidisciplinary pilot study | | Author(s) | Mark S Lachs, Carolyn Bove, Melvin H Wearing |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 13, no 3, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 79-90 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Crime ; Health [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the US, older people remain the least studied demographic group in respect of crime victimisation; and the health consequences of crime for this population are unknown. The prevalence and types of police-older person interaction were estimated with a random sample of 200 older people from the New Haven Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies in the Elderly (EPESE) cohort. This estimate was carried out by manual matching of police records from the same jurisdiction as the cohort for the period 1985 to 1991. The contribution of victimisation on mortality was also estimated. Of the 200 subjects, 47 had 86 police contacts over the period: 37 were victims, 26 were reporters of crime, 9 were offenders, and 8 were witnesses. 23 of the 200 had at least one police contact in which they were victims, who were more likely to be male and non-white. The methodology used can detect a relative risk of mortality after crime. There is a similar power to detect the impact of crime on other health outcomes that are routinely measured in the cohort (e.g. functional decline, depression). Thus, use of existing studies enables analysis of health outcomes of crime to be made more quickly and effectively. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030314208 A |
| Classmark | TWA: CC: 3J: 4UC: 7T |
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