This interdisciplinary study finds that the way laws are written and treated by state regulators measurably affects bureaucratic performance: the care taken by legislatures and state agencies in developing domestic elder abuse law affects how lower-level bureaucrats investigate and reporte abuse. Perhaps more interesting, however, are two robust findings about state law making. Both legislator ...

introduction: elder abuse is among the major social health problems in today`s communities, and has significant effect on decreasing the health and security level in this group. the current study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and associated factors of abuse among the elderly in kashan, iran. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 500 people over 60 years old in ka...

Elder financial abuse was claimed to be under-reported. In the literatures, there are many discussions on elder but scarcity in discussion of legal context. This paper aims identify protection related Malaysia. The method used this is doctrinal and qualitative study approach based content analysis, where Domestic Violence Act 1994 (DVA), Malaysian Penal Code (PC), Contracts 1950 (CA) case laws ...

Acknowledgements Thanks to Nancy Lombard for her work on the literature review, Ruth Lewis for help with key points and to Dawn Cattanach for her design work. This report provides an update on literature published since an earlier research project, Older Women and Domestic Violence in Scotland, conducted in 2003-2004 and published in June 2004. The original project was commissioned by Health Sc...

The starting point of this paper is that 'age' is undertheorised and generally viewed as unproblematic in criminology, particularly when compared to the consideration which has been given to 'race', gender and sexuality. Beyond the empirical level 'age' is not always meaningful, and it is rarely unpacked theoretically. My aim is to demonstrate that studies of the relationship between older peop...

I a scenario very similar to other forms of abuse (e.g., child abuse), elder abuse has changed from a subject rarely discussed to a national dilemma that gains media headlines. The exposure of elder abuse also has led researchers to take greater interest in this topic. Researchers have investigated elder abuse with regard to defining the problem, identifying victims, identifying abusers, and de...

Elder abuse is a pervasive phenomenon around the world with devastating effects on the victims. Although it is not a new phenomenon, interest in examining elder abuse is relatively new. This paper aims to provide an overview of the aetiological theories and measures of elder abuse. The paper briefly reviews theories to explain causes of elder abuse and then discusses the most commonly used meas...

Elder abuse, also called elder mistreatment or elder maltreatment, includes psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect (caregiver neglect and self-neglect), and financial exploitation. Evidence suggests that 1 out of 10 older adults experiences some form of elder abuse, and only a fraction of cases are actually reported to social services agencies. At the same time, elder abuse is indep...

This article is based on the lecture for the 2014 American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award. Elder abuse is a global public health and human rights problem. Evidence suggests that elder abuse is prevalent, predictable, costly, and sometimes fatal. This review will highlight the global epidemiology of elder abuse in terms of its prevalence, r...