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Elder abuse and neglect in Ireland
— results from a national prevalence survey | | Author(s) | Corina Naughton, Jonathan Drennan, Imogen Lyons |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 1, January 2012 |
| Pages | pp 98-103 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Living in the community ; Statistics [data] ; Ireland. |
| Annotation | The study aimed to measure the twelve-month prevalence of elder abuse and neglect in community-dwelling people aged 65 years and over in Ireland, and to examine the risk profile of people who experienced mistreatment and that of the perpetrators. Information was collected in face-to-face interviews on abuse types, socioeconomic, health and social support characteristics of the population. Overall the prevalence of elder abuse and neglect was 2.2% in the previous twelve months. The frequency of mistreatment type was financial 1.3%, psychological 1.2%, physical abuse 0.5%, neglect 0.3%, and sexual abuse 0.05%. In the univariate analysis lower income, impaired physical health, mental health and poor social support were associated with a higher risk of mistreatment but only social support and mental health remained independent predictors. Among perpetrators adult children (50%) were most frequently identified. Unemployment (50%) and addiction (20%) were characteristics of this group. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120503010 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: K4: 6C: 763 |
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