Kong, J. & Jeon, H. (2018). Functional Decline and Emotional Elder Abuse: A Population-Based Study of Older Korean Adults. Journal of Family Violence, 33(1), 17-26.
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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McDonald, L. (2018). The Mistreatment of Older Canadians: Findings from the 2015 National Prevalence Study. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 30(3), 176-208.
Moore, S. (2018). Oops! Its happened again! Evidence of the continuing abuse of older people in care homes. Journal of Adult Protection, 20(1), 33–46.
Park, J. I. (2018). Relationship Between Emotional Abuse and Depression Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Korea. Yonsei Medical Journal, 59(5), 693-697.
Themes:
Consequences* and psychological mistreatment*
Perkins, N. H., Spira, M. & Key, J. E. (2018). Intergenerational Transmission of Physical and Emotional Sibling Violence: A Potential Connection to Elder Abuse. Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 99(3), 256–268.
Beach, S. R., Liu, P., Deliema, M., Iris, M., Howe, M. J. & Conrad, K. J. (2017). Development of Short-Form Measures to Assess Four Types of Elder Mistreatment: Findings from an Evidence-Based Study of APS Elder Abuse Substantiation Decisions. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 29(4), 229-253.
Burnes, D., Pillemer, K. & Lachs, M. S. (2017). Elder Abuse Severity: A Critical but Understudied Dimension of Victimization for Clinicians and Researchers. Gerontologist, 57(4), 745-756.
Themes:
Neglect*, physical mistreatment*, psychological mistreatment* and research*
Labrum, T. (2017). Factors Related to Abuse of Older Persons by Relatives with Psychiatric Disorders. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 68, 126-134.
Santos, A. J., Nunes, B., Kislaya, I., Gil, A. P. & Ribeiro, O. (2017). Psychological Elder Abuse: Measuring Severity Levels or Potential Family Conflicts? Journal of Adult Protection, 19(6), 380-393.
Themes:
Extent of the phenomenon* and psychological mistreatment*
Porrúa-García, C., Rodríguez-Carballeira, Á., Escartín, J., Gómez-Benito, J., Almendros, C. & Martín-Peña, J. (2016). Development and Validation of the Scale of Psychological Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence (EAPA-P). Psicothema, 28(2), 214-221.