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| Risk factors for abuse and neglect among older adults | | Author(s) | Elizabeth Dow Pittaway, Anne Westhues, Tracy Peressini |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 14, Supplement 2, Summer 1995 |
| Pages | pp 20-44 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; At risk ; Theory ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Four theoretical perspectives on elder abuse and neglect are reviewed: the situational model; social exchange theory; symbolic interactionism; and a feminist model. Risk factors for physical abuse, chronic verbal abuse, material abuse and neglect were identified for each theoretical model. Each set of risk factors was regressed on each type of abuse, to determine the efficacy of the theoretical models. The data suggest that the risk factors associated with the situational and feminist models provide the best fit in terms of physical abuse; the symbolic interaction model explains the most variance in chronic verbal abuse; both the symbolic interaction and feminist models explain about the same amount of variance in neglect; and some of the theoretical models adequately explains the variance in material abuse. The study is based on older people who accessed health and social service organisations in London, Ontario, Canada in 1991. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821264 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: CA3: 4D: 7S |
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