Views of older persons on elder abuse | Media Diversity Institute

Keywords: International, Western Europe, older people, abuse, discrimination, indicator, guide, print, online

Prevalence studies concerning abuse of older persons have so far been restricted to developed nations. In developing countries, though, there is no systematic collection of statistics or prevalence studies, crime records, journalistic reports, social welfare records and small scale studies to provide evidence that abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of elders are widely prevalent. The study’s main approach involved the conduct of focus groups with older persons in the community, and with primary health care workers, in order to establish components of elder abuse as identified by older people themselves and by those forming the primary health care teams.

alt Views of older persons on elder abuse Argentina [EN].pdf