ArticleBMC geriatrics2022
Elder abuse in the COVID-19 era based on calls to the National Center on Elder Abuse resource line.
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- Behind Closed Doors: Elder Abuse as an Overlooked Pandemic of Modern Times.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Fraud Prevalence and Prospective Prediction of Fraud Victimization in the Health and Retirement Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Positive predictive value of Dutch Elder Abuse Scale (ERASE): an early warning tool for elder abuse in the emergency department and geriatric outpatient setting.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Rural-Urban Differences in the Prevalence and Correlates of Elder Mistreatment.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 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
- Neuropsychological profile associated with financial exploitation vulnerability in older adults without dementia.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2025Article
- 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
- Elder abuse: a conceptual analysis.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated circumstances that place older adults at higher risk for abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Identifying characteristics of elder abuse during COVID-19 is critically important. This study characterized and compared elder abuse patterns across two time periods, a one-year period during the pandemic, and a corresponding one-year period prior to the start of the pandemic.
methodsContacts (including social media contacts, and email; all referred to as "calls" for expediency) made to the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) resource line were examined for differences in types of reported elder abuse and characteristics of alleged perpetrators prior to the pandemic (Time 1; March 16, 2018 to March 15, 2019) and during the pandemic (Time 2; March 16, 2020 to March 15, 2021). Calls were examined for whether or not abuse was reported, the types of reported elder abuse, including financial, physical, sexual, emotional, and neglect, and characteristics of callers, victims, and alleged perpetrators. Chi-square tests of independence compared frequencies of elder abuse characteristics between time periods.
resultsIn Time 1, 1401 calls were received, of which 795 calls (56.7%) described abuse. In Time 2, 1009 calls were received, of which 550 calls (54.5%) described abuse. The difference between time periods in frequency of abuse to non-abuse calls was not significant ([Formula: see text]). Time periods also did not significantly differ with regard to caller, victim, and perpetrator characteristics. Greater rates of physical abuse ([Formula: see text] and emotional abuse ([Formula: see text] were reported during Time 2 after adjustment for multiple comparisons. An increased frequency of multiple forms of abuse was also found in Time 2 compared to Time 1 ([Formula: see text].
conclusionsFindings suggest differences in specific elder abuse subtypes and frequency of co-occurrence between subtypes between time periods, pointing to a potential increase in the severity of elder abuse during COVID-19.
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