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| Identifying older people at risk of abuse during routine screening practices | | Author(s) | Lisa R Shugarman, Brant E Fries, Rosalie S Wolf |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 51, no 1, January 2003 |
| Pages | pp 24-31 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; At risk ; Screening ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The association between various characteristics of older people and a constructed measure of potential elder abuse was examined using data from the Minimum Data Set for Home Care (MDS-HC) assessment for 701 people aged 60+ seeking home and community-based services in Michigan between November 1996 and October 1997. Several measures of social support and social function were strongly associated with the signs of a potentially abusive environment: brittle support; older person feels lonely; and older person expresses conflict with family or friends. Home care participants' alcohol abuse, psychiatric illness, lack of ease interacting with others, and short-term memory problems were also significantly associated with the signs of potential elder abuse. Thus, a diminishing social network, poor social functioning, with some characteristics of a person's health are factors contributing to signs of potential abuse. Improved understanding of the links between those characteristics and potential abuse will help health care providers and others to identify older people at high risk of abuse. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030715203 A |
| Classmark | QNT: CA3: 3V: 7T |
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