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| The perspectives of older care recipients, their family members, and their round-the-clock foreign home care workers regarding elder mistreatment | | Author(s) | Liat Ayalon |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 14, no 4, May 2010 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, May 2010 |
| Pages | pp 411-415 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Attitude ; Immigrants ; Care support workers ; Domiciliary services ; The Family ; Evaluation ; Israel. |
| Annotation | This Israeli study evaluated attitudes toward elder mistreatment from the perspective of older care recipients, their foreign home care workers, and their family members. Overall, 88 older care recipients, 142 family members, and 127 foreign home care workers responded to a hypothetical case vignette querying about the appropriate care of an older woman who suffers from neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia. Foreign home care workers tended to be more lenient toward elder mistreatment relative to older adults and their family members, and to view as effective techniques that would non-equivocally be considered abusive and ineffective by current standards. Interventions should inform these stakeholders about what constitutes elder mistreatment and should be particularly geared toward addressing cultural differences in the perception of elder mistreatment. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100827216 A |
| Classmark | QNT: DP: TJ: QRS: N: SJ: 4C: 7H6 |
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