Dash, K., Rosen, T., Biese, K., Platts-Mills, T. F., & Ula Hwang. (2020). The Power of Data Can Support Effective Response to Elder Mistreatment in Hospital Emergency Departments. Generations, 44(1), 38–43.
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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Lavingia, R., Bryan, J., & Asghar-Ali, A. (2020). Teaching Psychiatry Residents to Recognize and Respond to Elder Abuse through a Standardized Patient Encounter. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28, S100.
Themes:
Detection and identification*, hospital settings* and training*
Platts-Mills, T. F., Sivers-Teixeira, T., Encarnacion, A., Tanksley, B., & Olsen, B. (2020). EM-SART: A Scalable Elder Mistreatment Screening and Response Tool for Emergency Departments. Generations, 44(1), 51–58.
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*
Rosen, T., Platts-Mills, T. F., & Fulmer, T. (2020). Screening for elder mistreatment in emergency departments: current progress and recommendations for next steps. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 32(3), 295–315.
Themes:
Detection and identification* and hospital settings*
Mehri, S., Hosseini, M. A., Shahbelaghi, F. M., Fallahi-Khoshknab, M., & Zardkhaneh, S. A. (2020). Explaining Nurses’ Perception of the Causes of Ageism in Hospital Settings. Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 17(5), 1–6.
Themes:
Ageism* and hospital settings*
Andrade, F. M. D. de, Ribeiro, A. P., Bernal, R. T. I., Machado, Í. E., & Malta, D. C. (2020). Profile of care for violence against the elderly in urgency and emergency services: VIVA analysis Survey 2017. Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia = Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology, 23 Suppl 1, e200008.SUPL.1.
Themes:
Hospital settings*
Collins, M., Posenelli, S., Cleak, H., O’Brien, M., Braddy, L., Donley, E., & Joubert, L. (2020). Elder abuse identification by an australian health service: A five-year, social-work audit. Australian Social Work.
Themes:
Detection and identification* and hospital settings*
Fraga Dominguez, S., Valiquette, J., Storey, J. E., & Glorney, E. (2020). Elder Abuse Detection and Intervention: Challenges for Professionals and Strategies for Engagement From a Canadian Specialist Service. Journal of Forensic Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1097/JFN.0000000000000301
Themes:
Detection and identification*, hospital settings* and intervention*
Wu, M., Peng, C., Chen, Y., Yuan, M., Zhao, M., Wang, C., & Zeng, T. (2020). Nurses’ Perceptions of Factors Influencing Elder Self-neglect: A Qualitative Study. Asian Nursing Research, 14(3), 137–143.