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| Statute definitions of elder abuse | | Author(s) | Jeanette M Daly, Gerald Jogerst |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 13, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 39-58 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Interpretation ; Law ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Differences in elder abuse definitions hinder the comparison of research and state elder abuse data. This paper describes and summarises elder abuse definitions in the state statutes, and presents current definitions used in practice, education and research. The definitions of elder abuse for the 50 states and District of Columbia laws addressing protective services for domestic elder abuse were analysed. No one single term describing elder abuse was used uniformly across all statutes. Predominant terms used in the statutes were: abandonment, mental anguish, exploitation, neglect, self-neglect and sexual abuse. It is unlikely that legislation for the 50 states and District of Columbia would be implemented to change the statutes' definitions of elder abuse, but it is possible to develop a list of definitions that can be used as model definitions for researchers, practitioners and future policy changes. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040302213 A |
| Classmark | QNT: 4CC: VR: 7T |
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