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| Elder abuse in Connecticut's nursing homes | | Author(s) | Priscilla D Allen, Kathy Kellett, Cynthia Gruman |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 15, no 1, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 19-42 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Nursing homes ; Complaints [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A retrospective case record review is used to investigate abuse and neglect concerns from the nursing home resident's perspective in the state of Connecticut. Complaints tracked between July 1998 and July 2000, using the Connecticut Ombudsman Reporting System, totalled 3,443 and were combined with related data from all 261 of the state's nursing homes. Within the total number of complaints, analysis centred on the sub-categories of abuse, gross neglect, exploitation and care. Findings show that 69% of Connecticut's nursing homes had accounts of care complaints, and 47% had one or more accounts of abuse. Identifying abuse and care concerns in Connecticut's nursing homes may lead to the exposition of additional patterns related to abuse and care in other institutional settings, and merits further exploration of staffing characteristics in relation to abuse. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040929212 A |
| Classmark | QNT: LHB: QLV: 7T |
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