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Abuse of older Chinese with dementia by family caregivers
— an inquiry into the role of caregiver burden | | Author(s) | Elsie Yan, Timothy Kwok |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 26, no 5, May 2011 |
| Pages | pp 527-535 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Dementia ; Family care ; Stress ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | This study looked at the prevalence of, and risk factors for, elder abuse by family caregivers of older Chinese dementia sufferers living in Hong Kong. A convenience sample of 122 family caregivers was recruited from local community centres for older people. Participants provided information on their demographic characteristics, care recipients' physical functioning and agitated behaviour, caregiver burden, and whether they had directed any abusive behaviour at the care recipients in the previous month. 62 and 18 per cent of caregivers, respectively, reported having verbally or physically abused the care recipients in the past month. Those who spent more days co-residing with the care recipients, lacked any assistance from a domestic helper, observed more agitated behaviours and/or reported a higher level of caregiver stress, also reported more abusive behaviours. The number of co-residing days, lack of any assistance from a domestic helper, and caregiver burden were significant predictors of verbal abuse. Care recipient agitated behaviour also predicted verbal abuse, with its effect mediated by caregiver burden. The number of co-residing days was the only significant predictor of physical abuse. The authors conclude that abuse is prevalent among this population of older Chinese with dementia. Stress is related to more verbal, but not physical abuse being inflicted by the caregivers of dementia sufferers. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110822003 A |
| Classmark | QNT: EA: P6:SJ: QNH: 7DR |
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