Elder Abuse Severity: A Critical but Understudied Dimension of Victimization for Clinicians and Researchers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of the study

To describe the variation in severity of elder emotional abuse, physical abuse, and neglect and identify factors associated with more severe forms of elder mistreatment (EM).

Design and methods

Population-based study using random digit-dial sampling and telephone interviews with a representative sample (n = 4,156) of community-dwelling, cognitively intact older adults in New York State. The Conflict Tactics Scale and DUKE Older Americans Resources and Services scales were adapted to assess EM subtypes. For each EM subtype, severity was operationalized by summing the number of different mistreatment behaviors and the frequency of each behavior. Among older adults reporting some degree of mistreatment, ordinal or multinomial regression predicted severity o

SUBMITTER: Burnes D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281326 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature