Impact of structural ageism on greater violence against older persons: a cross-national study of 56 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the association between country-level structural ageism and prevalence of violence against older persons.

Design

Country-level ecological study.

Setting

Structural ageism data were drawn from the nationally representative World Values Survey 2010-2014 (WVS), global databases from the WHO, United Nations and the World Bank. Violence data were based on the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) study 2017.

Participants

Analysis of 56 countries that represented 63.1% of the world's ageing population aged 60 and over across all six of WHO regions.

Exposure

Structural ageism, following established structural stigma measures, consisted of two components: (1) discriminatory national policies related to older persons' economic, social, civil and

SUBMITTER: Chang ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8126306 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature