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| Figuring out abuse | | Author(s) | Claudine McCreadie, Leo Quigley |
| Journal title | Community Care, no 1258, 4-10 February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 24-25 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Social surveys ; Sheffield. |
| Annotation | Although accurate information concerning adult abuse and particularly elder abuse remains sparse, the problem is now being acknowledged. An experiment in Sheffield on methods of recording abuse makes data available for the first 100 cases of alleged abuse investigated under joint agency procedures. Different types of abuse were reported, with 55% of cases involving one type of abuse, most commonly physical abuse, followed by sexual abuse, then financial abuse. Two or more types of abuse were common, with emotional abuse and neglect most likely to occur in conjunction with another form of abuse. The monitoring exercise used three versions of a form to collect data: the first two had few questions about the alleged abuser. The latest version asks for the care management category of the alleged abuser, if applicable, and details of additional problems of the abuser: such problems are relevant to understanding the situation of the problem of the abused person. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990312001 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: 3F: 85C * |
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