Development and evaluation of a social inclusion framework for a comprehensive hospital-based elder abuse intervention.

ABSTRACT: A framework of social inclusion can promote equity and aid in preventing and addressing the abuse of older adults. Our objective was to build a social inclusion framework for a comprehensive hospital-based elder abuse intervention being developed. Potential components of such a framework, namely, health determinants and guiding principles, were extracted from a systematic scoping review of existing responses (e.g., interventions, protocols) to elder abuse and collated. These were subsequently rated for their importance to the elder abuse intervention by a panel of violence experts and further evaluated by a panel of elder abuse experts. The final social inclusion framework comprised 12 health determinants each representing factors underpinning susceptibility for abuse in aging populations:

SUBMITTER: Du Mont J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7274390 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature