Kamavarapu, Y. S., Ferriter, M., Morton, S. & Völlm, B. (2017). Institutional Abuse - Characteristics of Victims, Perpetrators and Organisations: A Systematic Review. European Psychiatry, 40, 45-54.
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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Labrum, T. (2017). Factors Related to Abuse of Older Persons by Relatives with Psychiatric Disorders. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 68, 126-134.
Lalitha, K. & Aswartha Reddy, A. (2017). Level of Disability, Social Supports and Depression as Correlates to Elder Abuse Among Older Men and Women. Journal of Psychosocial Research, 12(1), 107-115.
Themes:
Consequences*, gender* and risk factors and vulnerability*
Salisbury, S. & Fawcett, A. (2017). Promising Practices for Incident Management: How We Can Keep Vulnerable Citizens Safer. Policy & Practice, 75(4), 8-39.
Themes:
Intervention* and risk factors and vulnerability*
Spreng, R. N., Cassidy, B. N., Darboh, B. S., DuPre, E., Lockrow, A. W., Setton, R. & Turner, G. R. (2017). Financial Exploitation Is Associated with Structural and Functional Brain Differences in Healthy Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 72(10), 1365-1368.
Wong, H. & Chiu, M. (2017). Global Prevalence of Elder Abuse: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry, 27(2), 43-55.
Yunus, R. M., Hairi, N. P., Choo, W. P., Hairi, F. P., Sooryanarayana, R. M., Ahmad, S. M., & ... Bulgiba, A. P. (2017). Mortality among elder abuse victims in rural Malaysia: A two-year population-based descriptive study. Journal Of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 29(1), 59-71.
Themes:
Consequences*, intercultural* and risk factors and vulnerability*
Yunus, R. M., Wazid, S. W., Hairi, N. N., Choo, W. Y., Hairi, F. M., Sooryanarayana, R., Ahmad, S. N., Razak, I. A., Peramalah, D., Aziz, S. A., Mohamad, Z. L., Mohamad, R., Ali, Z. M. & (2017). Association Between Elder Abuse and Poor Sleep: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Rural Older Malaysians. Plos One, 12(7), e0180222.
Beach, S. R., Schulz, R. & Sneed, R. (2016). Associations between social support, social networks, and financial exploitation in older adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology: The Official Journal of The Southern Gerontological Society,1-22.
Benbow, B. (2016). Environmental interventions to mitigate resident-to-resident aggression. Canadian Nursing Home, 27(2), 4 11.