Stoeckle, R. J., & Bane, S. (2020). The National Collaboratory on Elder Mistreatment. Generations, 44(1), 33–37.
This section suggests a selection of international publications on mistreatment of older adults that have been published since 2007. A scientific literature review is carried out every six months in order to regularly enhance this reference list.
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Välimäki, T., Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, A., & Vaismoradi, M. (2020). Abuse in the caregiving relationship between older people with memory disorders and family caregivers: A systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Themes:
Caregivers* and systematic review and meta analysis*
Ventura, F., Caputo, F., Micera, C., & Molinelli, A. (2020). Elder abuse: a retrospective analysis of autopsy cases from the department of legal medicine in Genoa from 2006 to 2017. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 1–11.
Themes:
Hospital settings*
Wang, B., Hoover, D. R., Beck, T., & Dong, X. (2020). A Vulnerability Risk Index of Self‐Neglect in a Community‐Dwelling Older Population. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68(4), 809–816.
Weissberger, G. H., Mosqueda, L., Nguyen, A. L., Samek, A., Boyle, P. A., Nguyen, C. P., & Han, S. D. (2020). Physical and mental health correlates of perceived financial exploitation in older adults: Preliminary findings from the Finance, Cognition, and Health in Elders Study (FINCHES). Aging & Mental Health, 24(5), 740–746.
Themes:
Consequences* and financial mistreatment*
Wiegand, B. (2020). “Like M Ean Girls, but Everyone Is Eighty”: A Solution for Elder Bullying. Elder Law Journal, 27(2), 379–421.
Themes:
Bullying* and living environments*
Xing, T., Sun, F., Wang, K., Zhao, J., Wu, M., & Wu, J. (2020). Vulnerability to fraud among Chinese older adults: do personality traits and loneliness matter? Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 32(1), 46–59.
Zawisza, K., Galas, A., Tobiasz-Adamczyk, B., & Grodzicki, T. (2020). Validity of a Self-Reported Neglect Scale Among Older Adults in Poland. Gerontologist, 60(3), e117–e126.
Nobels, A., Vandeviver, C., Beaulieu, M., Cismaru-Inescu, A., Nisen, L., Van Den Noortgate, N., … Keygnaert, I. (2020). “Too grey to be true?” Sexual violence in older adults : a critical interpretive synthesis of evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114117
Themes:
Research* and sexual mistreatment*
Bajpai, N., Kulshreshtha, K., Dubey, P., & Sharma, G. (2020). Getting the cues of elder abuse: an identification through dependency and modernization. Journal of Adult Protection, 22(3), 119–139.