ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2021
High Prevalence of Elder Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Risk and Resilience Factors.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Elder abuse without borders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Violence During the First Year of the Pandemic: An Integrative Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2025Pooled it
- ERASE: a feasible early warning tool for elder abuse, developed for use in the Dutch emergency department.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Global prevalence of domestic violence against adults during COVID-19 and its determinants: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
- Behind Closed Doors: Elder Abuse as an Overlooked Pandemic of Modern Times.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Detecting Elder Abuse in an Italian Emergency Department: A Six-Year Retrospective Study and Implications for Systematic Screening.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Online Search Trends on Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Most Widely Used Search Engine: Retrospective Observational Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Article
- Perceived hospitalized elder abuse in Iran: a cross-sectional study of subscale patterns and associated factors.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- A 7-year retrospective evaluation of judicial cases of patients over 75 years of age, except traffic accidents.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Rural-Urban Differences in the Prevalence and Correlates of Elder Mistreatment.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Article
- Elder abuse in Lebanese primary care: prevalence and predictors from a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Factors Associated With an Elder Mistreatment Diagnosis Among Medicare Home Health Care Recipients.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- [Violence in family caregiving during the coronavirus pandemic in Germany : Results of an ad hoc survey among family caregivers in 2021].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2025Article
- Prevalence of elder abuse and its correlated factors in Iranian community-dowelling older adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Improved outcomes for depressed elder abuse victims with video-delivered psychotherapy during COVID-19.Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research · 2025Article
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- Unmasking Elder Abuse: Depression and Dependency in the Post-Pandemic Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Healthcare costs for legally adjudicated elder mistreatment victims in comparison to non-mistreated older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- "It Bothered Me": The Mental Burden of COVID-19 Media Reports on Community-Dwelling Elderly People.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Effect of an elder abuse and self-neglect intervention on repeat investigations by adult protective services: RISE project.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Observational
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objectiveBefore the COVID-19 pandemic, elder abuse affected one in 10 American older adults annually. It has been assumed that the pandemic has brought with it a surge in elder abuse due to individuals ordered to stay at home combined with increased interpersonal stressors. However, empirical evidence is lacking. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of, and risk and resilience factors of elder abuse during the pandemic.
methodsThe survey was conducted via two online platforms during April 23 and May 5, 2020, when all states had stay-at-home orders. The final cohort consisted of a sociodemographically diverse sample of 897 older persons in the United States. The prevalence of elder abuse was evaluated by a validated measure previously used in a population-based study of elder abuse. Pandemic-related factors were examined at the community, relational, and individual contexts. We conducted multivariate logistic regression analyses to examine determinants of elder abuse.
resultsOne in five older persons in the study sample (n = 191; 21.3%) reported elder abuse, an increase of 83.6% from prevalence estimates before the pandemic. In the final models, sense of community emerged as a persistent protective factor for elder abuse (odds ratio [OR]: 0.89, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.85-0.93). At the relational level, physical distancing was associated with reduced risk of elder abuse (OR: 0.94, 95% CI: 0.90-0.98). At the individual level, financial strain was associated with increased risk of abuse (OR: 1.08, 95% CI: 1.02-1.14).
conclusionHealth care professionals and policy makers must be prepared to address the increase in elder abuse associated with the evolving pandemic.
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