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The mistreatment of older Canadians
— findings from the 2015 national prevalence study | | Author(s) | Lynn McDonald |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, vol 30, no 3, March-July 2018 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, March-July 2018 |
| Pages | pp 176-208 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Hitherto, there has been one national investigation of the prevalence of elder mistreatment in Canada, which was carried out in 1989 on 2,008 randomly selected Canadians aged 65+. Sometimes called the Ryerson Study, findings published in the early 1990s found that 4% of the sample had reported some form of abuse. The present article reports on the National Survey on the Mistreatment of Older Canadians 2015. This second survey had four aims, the first being to present overall prevalence for aggregate elder abuse and neglect and for each of five subcategories of abuse in the Canadian population aged 55+. Second, it presents a sociodemographic, health and social contact profile of participants. Third, it provides a bivariate analysis of those mistreated compared to those not mistreated. Lastly, it estimates a model predicting elder mistreatment and the various subtypes of mistreatment. The survey found that 8.2% of community-dwelling Canadians aged 55+ experienced some form of mistreatment in 2015. The article presents information on: physical and psychological, sexual and financial mistreatment; perpetrators; and abuse across the life course. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180525249 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: 3F: 7S |
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