ArticleJournal of elder abuse & neglect
Research priorities for elder abuse screening and intervention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network scoping review and consensus statement.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Screening and Interventions for Elder Mistreatment: Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 Systematic Review.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Detecting Elder Abuse in an Italian Emergency Department: A Six-Year Retrospective Study and Implications for Systematic Screening.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Standardization Study (GEARSS): An Observational Study of Older Emergency Department Patients.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Observational
- A Model for Developing Subspecialty Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- Injury patterns and demographics in older adult abuse and falls: A comparative study in emergency department settings.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Hot off the press: Stop fallin'-Geriatric fall prevention in the emergency department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022Article
- Inclusion of older adults in emergency department clinical research: Strategies to achieve a critical goal.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022Article
- Moving the needle on fall prevention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network scoping review and consensus statement.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network (1) conducted a scoping review of the current literature on the identification of and interventions to address elder abuse among patients receiving care in emergency departments and (2) used this review to prioritize research questions for knowledge development. Two questions guided the scoping review: What is the effect of universal emergency department screening compared to targeted screening or usual practice on cases of elder abuse identified, safety outcomes, and health care utilization?; and What is the safety, health, legal, and psychosocial impact of emergency department-based interventions vs. usual care for patients experiencing elder abuse? We searched five article databases. Additional material was located through reference lists of identified publications, PsychInfo, and Google Scholar. The results were discussed in a consensus conference; and stakeholders voted to prioritize research questions. No studies were identified that directly addressed the first question regarding assessment strategies, but four instruments used for elder abuse screening in the emergency department were identified. For the second question, we located six articles on interventions for elder abuse in the emergency department; however, none directly addressed the question of comparative effectiveness. Based on these findings, GEAR participants identified five questions as priorities for future research - two related to screening, two related to intervention, and one encompassed both. In sum, research to identify best practices for elder abuse assessment and intervention in emergency departments is still needed. Although there are practical and ethical challenges, rigorous experimental studies are needed.
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