Cavuoto, M. G., Markusevska, S., Stevens, C., Reyes, P., Renshaw, G., Peters, M. D., ... & Brijnath, B. (2024). The impact of elder abuse training on subacute health providers and older adults: study protocol for a randomized control trial. Trials, 25(1), 338. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08160-3
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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Choi, G. Y., Koh, E., Lee, E. J., & Rhee, S. (2024). Elder mistreatment experiences, perceptions, and help-seeking behaviors of Asian American older adults. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 36(1), 41-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/08946566.2023.2301565
Dey, D., & Tripathi, P. (2024). Compromised well-being: implications on female geriatric abuse during the COVID-19 crisis in India. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 17(1), 98-111. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-02-2022-0008
Themes:
COVID-19* and mistreatment in general
Dias, I., & Fraga, S. (2024). "Older people are weak": perceptions and meanings of ageing and abuse against older people. Frontiers in sociology, 8, 1329005. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1329005
Themes:
Ageism, dementia, gender*, mistreatment in general and risk factors and vulnerability*
Duffy, A., Connolly, M., & Browne, F. (2024). Older people's experiences of elder abuse in residential care settings: A scoping review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80(6), 2214-2227. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15992
Durmaz, A., & Yılmaz, M. (2024). Family physicians’ knowledge levels about elder abuse and neglect in a province of Türkiye and hesitations in reporting. Family practice, 41(3), 255-261. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmad013
Fettig, N., Mitchell, H., Gassoumis, Z., Nizam, Z., Whittier Eliason, S., & Cory, S. (2024). Adult maltreatment risk factors: Adding community-level factors to an individual-level field. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221137659
Gassoumis, Z. D., Martinez, J. M., Yonashiro‐Cho, J., Mosqueda, L., Hou, A., Han, S. D., ... & Wilber, K. H. (2024). Comprehensive Older Adult and Caregiver Help (COACH): A person‐centered caregiver intervention prevents elder mistreatment. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 72(1), 246-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18597
Themes:
Caregivers*, mistreatment in general and training*
Gedfew, M., Getie, A., Akalu, T. Y., & Ayenew, T. (2024). Prevalence and types of elder abuse in Sub Saharan Africa, systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023. Journal of the National Medical Association, 116(3), 292–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2024.05.002
Themes:
Extent of the phenomenon* and mistreatment in general
Giorgetti, A., Pelletti, G., Fiorentini, C., Mazzotti, M. C., Fais, P., & Pelotti, S. (2024). On tackling abuse of older people: The forensic challenges in fatal cases investigation. Legal Medicine, 102398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2024.102398
Themes:
Extent of the phenomenon* and mistreatment in general