Storey, J. E. (2020). Risk factors for elder abuse and neglect: A review of the literature. Aggression & Violent Behavior, 50, N.P.
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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Mercier, É., Nadeau, A., Brousseau, A.-A., Émond, M., Lowthian, J., Berthelot, S., Costa, A. P., Mowbray, F., Melady, D., Yadav, K., Nickel, C., & Cameron, P. A. (2020). Elder Abuse in the Out-of-Hospital and Emergency Department Settings: A Scoping Review. Annals Of Emergency Medicine, 75(2), 181–191.
Chang, E.-S., Kannoth, S., Levy, S., Wang, S.-Y., Lee, J. E., & Levy, B. R. (2020). Global reach of ageism on older persons’ health: A systematic review. Plos One, 15(1), e0220857.
Themes:
Ageism* and systematic review and meta analysis*
Mercier, É., Nadeau, A., Brousseau, A.-A., Émond, M., Lowthian, J., Berthelot, S., Costa, A. P., Mowbray, F., Melady, D., Yadav, K., Nickel, C., & Cameron, P. A. (2020). Elder Abuse in the Out-of-Hospital and Emergency Department Settings: A Scoping Review. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 75(2), 181–191.
Ratnakaran, B., & Anil, S. S. (2020). A Systematic Review of Knowledge of Physicians about Abuse of Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28, S104–S105.
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*
Abdi, A., Tarjoman, A., & Borji, M. (2019). Prevalence of elder abuse in Iran: A Systematic review and meta-analysis. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 120–127.
Blundell, B., & Warren, A. (2019). Reviewing the extent of rural and remote considerations in elder abuse policy: A scoping review. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 27(4), 351–357.
Donnelly, S. (2019). 72 Adult Safeguarding, Abuse of Vulnerable Adults and Mandatory Reporting: A Rapid Realist Review of the Literature. Age and Ageing, 48(Supplement), iii17-iii65.
José, J. M. S. S., Amado, C. A. F., Ilinca, S., Buttigieg, S. C. & Larsson, A. T. (2019). Ageism in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Operational Definitions and Inductive Conceptualizations. Gerontologist, 59(2), e98–e108.
Themes:
Ageism*, definition* and systematic review and meta analysis*