ArticleThe Gerontologist2014
Elder abuse: research, practice, and health policy. The 2012 GSA Maxwell Pollack award lecture.
Article in The Gerontologist, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Comprehensive Older Adult and Caregiver Help (COACH): A person-centered caregiver intervention prevents elder mistreatment.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Trial
- Validation of the Italian Version of the Caregiver Abuse Screen among Family Caregivers of Older People with Alzheimer's Disease.BioMed research international · 2017Trial
- Behind Closed Doors: Elder Abuse as an Overlooked Pandemic of Modern Times.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Meeting the challenges in conducting research in vulnerable older adults with self-neglect-notes from a field team.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Health Professionals Palliative Care Education for Older Adults: Overcoming Ageism, Racism, and Gender Bias.Current geriatrics reports · 2021Review
- Numeracy Skills, Cognitive Reserve, and Psychological Well-Being: What Relationship in Late Adult Lifespan?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Numeracy Skills and Self-Reported Mental Health in People Aging Well.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2019Article
- Spectrum of neurological disorders in neurology outpatients clinics in urban and rural Sindh, Pakistan: a cross sectional study.BMC neurology · 2019Article
- Spectrum of Disease and Prescription Pattern for Outpatients with Neurological Disorders: An Empirical Pilot Study in Bangladesh.Annals of neurosciences · 2018Article
- Elder Abuse Severity: A Critical but Understudied Dimension of Victimization for Clinicians and Researchers.The Gerontologist · 2017Article
- Elder Self-neglect and Suicidal Ideation in an U.S. Chinese Aging Population: Findings From the PINE Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2017Article
- Reliability and Validity of the Lichtenberg Financial Decision Screening Scale.Innovation in aging · 2017Article
- Prosecutors' Perspectives on Elder Justice Using an Elder Abuse Forensic Center.American journal of criminal justice : AJCJ · 2016Article
- Screening for Elder Abuse in Healthcare Settings: Why Should We Care, and Is It a Missed Quality Indicator?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2015Review
- Policies to protect persons with dementia in assisted living: déjà vu all over again?The Gerontologist · 2015Article
- Elder abuse and dementia: a review of the research and health policy.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2014Review
- Financial exploitation, financial capacity, and Alzheimer's disease.The American psychologistArticle
- New Approaches to Preventing Financial Exploitation: A Focus on the Banks.The Public policy and aging reportArticle
- The Lichtenberg Financial Decision Screening Scale (LFDSS): A new tool for assessing financial decision making and preventing financial exploitation.Journal of elder abuse & neglectArticle
- Caregiver Abuse of Chicago Chinese Older Adults in a Community-Dwelling Population.Journal of geriatric medicine and gerontologyArticle
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Abstract
Elder abuse, also called elder mistreatment or elder maltreatment, includes psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect (caregiver neglect and self-neglect), and financial exploitation. Evidence suggests that 1 out of 10 older adults experiences some form of elder abuse, and only a fraction of cases are actually reported to social services agencies. At the same time, elder abuse is independently associated with significant morbidity and premature mortality. Despite these findings, there is a great paucity in research, practice, and policy dealing with this pervasive issue. In this paper, I review the epidemiology of elder abuse as well as key practical issues in dealing with the cases of elder abuse. Through my experiences as a Congressional Policy Fellow/National Health and Aging Policy Fellow, I highlight key previsions on 2 major federal legislations dealing with the issues of elder abuse: Older Americans Act (OAA) and Elder Justice Act (EJA). Lastly, I highlight major research gaps and future policy relevant research directions to advance the field of elder abuse. Interdisciplinary and community-based efforts are needed to devise effective strategies to detect, treat, and prevent elder abuse in our increasingly diverse aging populations. Collective advocacy and policy advances are needed to create a national infrastructure to protect the vulnerable older adults.
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