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First steps — the UK national prevalence study of the mistreatment and abuse of older people
Author(s)	Claudine McCreadie, Madeleine O'Keeffe, Jill Manthorpe
Journal title	The Journal of Adult Protection, vol 8, no 3, November 2006
Pages	pp 4-11
Source	Website: http://www.pavpub.com
Keywords	Elder abuse ; Methodology ; Research ; Social surveys.
Annotation	This article outlines the background to the recently commissioned UK national study of the prevalence of elder abuse and explains the methodology adopted in Stages 1 and 2 of the research. This is being funded by Comic Relief with co-funding from the Department of Health (DH) and carried out by a team of researchers at King's College London and the National Centre for Social Research. Stage 1, the development work, was completed in autumn 2005. Stage 2, which began in March 2006, is a national survey of the private residential population of the United Kingdom. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-061211215 A
Classmark	QNT: 3D: 3A: 3F
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