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Contrasting perceptions of health professionals and older people in Australia
— what constitutes elder abuse? | | Author(s) | C Hempton, B Dow, E N Cortes-Simenot |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 26, no 5, May 2011 |
| Pages | pp 466-472 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Attitude ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The study investigated differences in the perceptions of what constitutes elder abuse between family carers, older people and health professionals. The Caregiving Scenario Questionnaire (CSQ) was disseminated to health professionals from two metropolitan hospitals, older volunteers and carers of older people with dementia. In total, 120 health professionals, 361 older people and 89 carers returned surveys. Significantly more health professionals than older people identified locking someone in the house alone all day, restraining someone in a chair, and hiding medication in food as abusive. There were no significant differences between healthy volunteer older people and carers in their perceptions of elder abuse. A significant minority (40.8%) of health professionals and over 50% of carers did not identify locking the care recipient alone in the house all day as abusive. The authors conclude that in Australia there is limited consensus between older people, carers and health professionals as to what constitutes elder abuse. Health professionals were more likely to identify abusive and potentially abusive strategies correctly than carers or healthy older people. Nonetheless, between 25% and 40% of health professionals did not identify the abusive strategies. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110822001 A |
| Classmark | QNT: DP: 7YA |
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