Dong, L., & Sun, L. (2022). Self-neglect among older adults with disabilities in Liaoning Province during the COVID-19 outbreak: A cross-sectional study. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 1072110. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1072110
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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Donizzetti, A. R., & Capone, V. (2023). Ageism and the Pandemic: Risk and Protective Factors of Well-Being in Older People. Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland), 8(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8010014
Themes:
Ageism* and risk factors and vulnerability*
Donizzetti, A. R., & Lagacé, M. (2022). COVID-19 and the Elderly's Mental Illness: The Role of Risk Perception, Social Isolation, Loneliness and Ageism. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(8), 4513. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084513
Themes:
Ageism*, consequences*, covid-19* and neglect*
Døssing, M. V., & Crăciun, I. C. (2022). From Hostile to Benevolent Ageism: Polarizing Attitudes Toward Older Adults in German COVID-19-Related Tweets. The Gerontologist, 62(8), 1185–1195. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac063
Themes:
Ageism*, detection and identification* and prevention*
Drossel, C., & VanPutten, R. (2022). Ageism: Reconsidering aging: An examination of contextual factors and the construct of old age. In J. A. Sadavoy & M. L. Zube (Eds.), A scientific framework for compassion and social justice: Lessons in applied behavior analysis. (pp. 16–23). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Themes:
Ageism* and risk factors and vulnerability*
Duffy, A., Casey, L., & Connolly, M. (2022). Elder abuse: responsibilities of staff when safeguarding nursing home residents in the Republic of Ireland. Nursing Older People. https://doi-org.ezproxy.usherbrooke.ca/10.7748/nop.2022.e1404
Themes:
Institution* and mistreatment in general
Dukes, C., Dahlke, S., Pietrosanu, M., & Kalogirou, M. R. (2022). Improving student nurses' perspectives towards older people with an e-learning activity: A quasi-experimental pre-post design. International journal of older people nursing, 17(2), e12425. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.12425
Themes:
Ageism* and prevention*
Durmaz, A., & Yılmaz, M. (2023). Family physicians' knowledge levels about elder abuse and neglect in a province of Türkiye and hesitations in reporting. Family practice, cmad013. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmad013
Themes:
Intervention* and mistreatment in general
Dyer, C., Cannell, M. B., & Burnett, J. (2022). Neglect and self-neglect of older adults. In R. Geffner, J. W. White, L. K. Hamberger, A. Rosenbaum, V. Vaughan-Eden, & V. I. Vieth (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal violence and abuse across the lifespan: A project of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV). (pp. 4519–4543). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi-org.ezproxy.usherbrooke.ca/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_86
Themes:
Neglect* and self neglect*
Ekoh, P. C., Chukwu, N. E., & Okoye, U. O. (2023). Aging in rural Nigeria: gendered exclusion of rural older adults and its impact on their perceived life satisfaction in South-East Nigeria. Journal of women & aging, 35(2), 139–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.1999734