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Peer reviewedPillemer, Karl; Finkelhor, David – Gerontologist, 1988
Conducted interviews with 2,020 community-dwelling elderly persons in Boston regarding their experience of physical violence, verbal aggression, and neglect. Prevalence rate of overall maltreatment was 32 elderly persons per 1,000. Spouses were found to be most likely abusers, and similar numbers of men and women were victims, although women…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Elder Abuse, Family Relationship, Older Adults
Douglass, Richard L. – 1988
This booklet explores an issue that has only recently begun to receive widespread public attention: the mistreatment or neglect of elderly people within the home. What is known about mistreatment of the elderly by their families or by persons within their households is discussed in this document. It also explores what can be done about it, both in…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Battered Women, Elder Abuse, Family Problems
Download full textBrady, Mary Louise, Comp. – 1985
This bibliography of materials on domestic violence and child abuse available in the Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University is divided into sections by type of abuse, with sections on family violence, child abuse, emotional child abuse, incest and sexual abuse of children, the child-abusing mother, infant abuse, wife…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Child Abuse, Children, Elder Abuse
