ReviewHealth affairs (Project Hope)2014
Elder abuse and dementia: a review of the research and health policy.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of interventions to prevent abuse in people living with dementia in community settings: A systematic review.Dementia (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Preventing The Abuse Of Residents With Dementia Or Alzheimer's Disease In The Long-Term Care Setting: A Systematic Review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Pooled it
- Elder Abuse: Systematic Review and Implications for Practice.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2015Pooled it
- Validation of the Italian Version of the Caregiver Abuse Screen among Family Caregivers of Older People with Alzheimer's Disease.BioMed research international · 2017Trial
- Oliceridine combined with propofol-etomidate sedation in geriatric outpatients undergoing painless gastroscopy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Dementia Care in an Aging World: Achievements, Challenges, and Future Directions.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Review
- Elder abuse and the association with ear or hearing diseases in advanced age: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- The Cause-and-Consequence Relationships between Domestic Abuse and Alzheimer's Disease: Identification of Five Subtypes.Current Alzheimer research · 2026Review
- Measuring the care risk in older adults with dementia: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Homicides among people with disabilities, United States, 2003-2022.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
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- Self-neglect in older adults: an evolutionary concept analysis.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Review
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- Methodological considerations for assessing elder mistreatment of older adults with cognitive impairment: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- Health and social care staff's recognition of elder abuse perpetrated by family members of persons with dementia: a mixed-method study.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2024Article
- 2024 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Natural language processing to identify social determinants of health in Alzheimer's disease and related dementia from electronic health records.Health services research · 2023Article
- Family caregivers' abusive behaviour and its association with internalized stigma of people living with schizophrenia in China.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Elder Mistreatment and Dementia: A Comparison of People with and without Dementia across the Prevalence of Abuse.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
- Injury-related emergency department use among assisted living residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
Older adults with dementia may be at high risk for abuse, but the topic has not been well studied. We conducted a literature review to examine the relationships between elder abuse and dementia. We found that psychological abuse was the most common form of abuse among older adults, with estimates of its prevalence ranging from 27.9 percent to 62.3 percent. Physical abuse was estimated to affect 3.5-23.1 percent of older adults with dementia. We also found that many older adults experienced multiple forms of abuse simultaneously, and the risk of mortality from abuse and self-neglect may be higher in older adults with greater levels of cognitive impairment. We summarize programs and policies related to the abuse of older adults with dementia, including adult protective services, mandatory elder abuse reporting, and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. We also summarize aspects of the National Alzheimer's Project Act, the Older Americans Act, and the Elder Justice Act. In spite of a recent increase in research and policy developments on elder abuse, challenges such as insufficient funding, limited knowledge about elder abuse, a lack of funding for the implementation of federal and state programs relevant to elder abuse and dementia, and a lack of dementia-specific training for front-line health care staff persist. Stronger programs targeting the well-being of older adults with dementia are needed.
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