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Visibility blues
— gender issues in elder abuse in institutional settings | | Author(s) | Gabriele Griffin, Lynda Aitken |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 10, nos 1/2, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 29-42 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Sexual equality ; Older women ; Institutional accommodation ; Care home staff. |
| Annotation | The authors argue that elder abuse in institutional as opposed to domestic settings remains invisible. This is because institutions for older people are mainly all-female spaces where ageism and sexism converge, and clients and workers are economically and socially disadvantaged. A general culture of violence that increasingly legitimates the everydayness of abuse and that conforms to dominant gender stereotypes refuses to investigate abuse of women by women. Research is needed into the different kinds of abuse committed in institutional settings by women. Staff and clients need to be enabled to report abuse, and effective measures for combatting it to be put in place. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990729204 A |
| Classmark | QNT: TM8: BD: KV: QRM |
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