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The social construction of social problems
— the case of elder abuse and neglect | | Author(s) | Zvi Eisikovits, Chaya Koren, Tova Band-Winterstein |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 25, no 8, August 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, August 2013 |
| Pages | pp 1291-1298 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; The Family ; Paid welfare workers ; Attitude ; Theory. |
| Annotation | The purpose of the present study is to reconsider the ways in which researchers, professionals, family members and older people themselves construct elder abuse and neglect. The authors use a social constructionist perspective in order to describe how specific events and constructed into abuse and/or neglect based on how each of the protagonists involved (researchers, professional workers, family members and older people themselves) make sense of abuse and neglect. The paper aims to explore the social and psychological construction of elder abuse and neglect and to illustrate the theoretical constructs using case material and its application to the field. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130719211 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: SJ: QP: DP: 4D |
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