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The effect of care setting on elder abuse — results from a Michigan Survey
Author(s)	Connie Page, Tom Conner, Artem Prokhorov
Journal title	Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 21, no 3, 2009
Pages	pp 239-252
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Elder abuse ; Nursing homes ; Domiciliary services ; Sheltered housing ; Comparison ; United States of America.
Annotation	This US study compares abuse rates for elders aged 60 and older in three care settings: nursing home, paid home care, and assisted living. The results are based on a 2005 random-digit dial survey of relatives of, or those responsible for, a person in long-term care (the Michigan Survey of Households with Family Members Receiving Long Term Care Services, MILTC survey). Nursing homes have the highest rates of all types of abuse, although paid home care has a relatively high rate of verbal abuse and assisted living has an unexpected high rate of neglect. Even when adjusting for health conditions, care setting is a significant factor in both caretaking and neglect abuses. Moving from paid home care to nursing homes is shown to more than triple the odds of neglect. Furthermore, when computing abuse rates by care setting for persons with specified health conditions, nursing homes no longer have the highest abuse rates. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-100111211 A
Classmark	QNT: LHB: N: KLA: 48: 7T
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