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Bruising in older adults
— what do social workers need to know? | | Author(s) | Sarah A O Matthews, Janet Reynolds |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 17, no 6, 2015 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2015 |
| Pages | pp 351-359 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Social workers ; Training [welfare work] ; Competence ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this paper was to discuss a research study exploring one aspect of adult safeguarding, that of non-accidental injury in older adults, specifically bruising. The study was undertaken with a view to analysing the current relevant literature and examining current practitioners' views concerning bruising in older adults in order to understand social work practitioners' awareness of and training in bruising. The paper describes a small-scale research study including two focus groups of social work and nursing practitioners. Themes arising from transcripts were coded by the analyst and discussed in light of the summary and explanation of the literature reviewed following an initial scoping and exclusion exercise. The paper found that there was some evidence of typical and atypical non-accidental bruising emerging in older adults similar to that of children, but this tended to be treated as a clinical matter and mostly directed at medical staff. This paper will be of interest to all those concerned with the effective understanding of bruising as a sign of non-accidental injury in older people and especially the extent to which social work practitioners and others have to consider bruising during the course of their work with older people. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160115208 A |
| Classmark | QNT: CA3G: QR: QW: DPB: 64A |
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