Older Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Mixed-Effects Logistic Regression Analysis of Police Records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Domestic violence (DV) among older adults is an understudied area, often overlapping with abuse of older people, intimate partner violence, and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Objective

This study aimed to examine the characteristics of older persons of interest-individuals suspected or charged with a DV offence-and survivors involved in police-attended DV events in New South Wales, Australia, and assess associations with physical and nonphysical abuse.

Methods

Police records of 10,708 DV events involving 8247 adults aged ≥55 years who were identified as persons of interest from 2005 to 2016 were analyzed using text mining. A 3-level mixed-effects logistic regression model was used to identify predictors of physical and nonphysical abuse.

SUBMITTER: Reutens S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519033 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature