Help-Seeking Among Victims of Elder Abuse: Findings From the National Elder Mistreatment Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The vast majority of elder abuse (EA) victims remain hidden from formal institutional response systems. Guided by the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use, this study examined factors that facilitate or impede formal help-seeking among victims of elder emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse.

Methods

Data came from a national, population-based EA study in the United States with a representative sample (n = 304) of past-year victims. Gold-standard strategies were used to assess EA subtypes. Multivariate logistic regression was conducted to identify help-seeking facilitators/barriers.

Results

Help-seeking through reporting to police or other authorities occurred among only 15.4% of EA victims. Help-seeking was higher among victims of physical abu

SUBMITTER: Burnes D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566322 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature