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| What do general practitioners know about elder abuse? | | Author(s) | Gerry Bennett, Claudine McCreadie, Anthea Tinker |
| Journal title | Geriatric Medicine, vol 28, no 12, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 9-10 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; General practitioners ; Social surveys ; Tower Hamlets. |
| Annotation | General practitioners (GPs) have a potentially important role within the primary health care team in dealing with actual or suspected cases of elder abuse. The authors report on their research project, undertaken in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which indicates that GPs are ill-equipped to deal with cases of elder abuse. Education and training are essential to enable GPs and other members of the primary health-care team to manage cases of abuse. Over-75 health checks may provide an opportunity for assessing risk in older patients, and may act as a model for risk assessment in `young old' patients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990209001 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QT6: 3F: 82LV |
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