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Elder abuse - what do nurses know about it?
— a qualitative study to explore nurse awareness of elder abuse | | Author(s) | Mary Louise Pullen |
| Journal title | BASEline, no 67, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 18-36 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Nursing ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Nurses ; Literature reviews ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | A literature review presents the evidence of what nurses already know about elder abuse, the extent of the problem, the characteristics of the abused and abuser, and theoretical explanations. For her research, the author used a questionnaire devised by Vernon and Bennett (1995, unpublished), which was given to a sample of qualified nurses working in general medical wards and medical wards for older people in a district general hospital. Results suggest that nurses dealing with each patient group had reasonably good awareness of issues relating to elder abuse. Nurses working in a ward dealing only with older people were a little more sensitive to terms relating only to older people such as elder abuse and elder mistreatment. However, nurses may not see enough cases to be familiar with managing elder abuse. Given that prevalence rates are likely to increase, nurses need to be informed about such issues. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981123006 A |
| Classmark | QNT: LQ: TOB: QTE: 64A: 3F |
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