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Risk factors for reported elder abuse and neglect: a nine-year observational cohort study
Author(s)	Mark S Lachs, Christianna Williams, Shelley O'Brien
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 4, August 1997
Pages	pp 469-474
Keywords	Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; At risk ; Services ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	To determine longitudinal risk factors for elder abuse and neglect, an established cohort of 2,812 community-dwelling older adults in Connecticut, US, was linked with elderly protective service records over a 9-year follow-up period. Findings showed that protective services saw 184 individuals in the cohort for any indication, and 47 cohort members were seen for corroborated elder abuse or neglect for a sampling adjusted 9-year prevalence of 1.6%. In pooled logistic regression, age, race, poverty, functional disability, and cognitive impairment were identified as risk factors for reported mistreatment of older people. Additionally, the onset of new cognitive impairment was also associated with elder abuse and neglect. Because the mechanism of elder abuse case-finding in this study was a social welfare system (protective services), the influence of race and poverty as risk factors is likely to be overestimated due to reporting bias. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980605405 A
Classmark	QNT: QNR: CA3: I: 3J: 7T
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