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Elder abuse
— a systematic review of risk factors in community-dwelling elders | | Author(s) | Mark Johannesen, Dina LoGuidice |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 42, no 3, May 2013 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, May 2013 |
| Pages | pp 292-298 |
| Source | www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Living in the community ; At risk ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to undertake a systematic literature review of risk factors for abuse in community-dwelling older adults as a first step towards exploring the clinical utility of a risk factor framework. A search was undertaken using the MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE and PsycINFO databases for articles published in English up to March 2011 in order to identify original studies with statistically significant risk factors for abuse in community-dwelling adults aged 55 and above. 49 studies met the inclusion criteria, with 13 risk factors being reproducible across a range of settings in high-quality studies. These concerned the older person (cognitive impairment, behavioural problems, psychiatric illness or psychological problems, functional dependency, poor physical health or frailty, low income or wealth, trauma or past abuse and ethnicity), perpetrator (caregiver burden or stress, and psychiatric illness or psychological problems), relationship (family disharmony, poor or conflictual relationships) and environment (low social support and living with others except for financial abuse). Current evidence supports the multifactorial aetiology of elder abuse involving risk factors within the older person, perpetrator, relationship and environment. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130510207 A |
| Classmark | QNT: K4: CA3: 64A |
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