Elder Abuse Term Paper
According to this study which focuses on the theories and measures of elder abuse. Abolfathi, Hamid, and Ibrahim (2013) focus on two important aspects of elder abuse. The first aspect was about theorizing the causes of senior mistreatment in terms of psychological, sociological, and biological theories. Based on the reviewed theories, it was found that elder abuse might occur because of the senior adults’ dependency in potential perpetrators, such as family, friends, and caregivers
The second section of this article was about the measures and the instrument that use to assessment elder abuse. The authors discuss the most commonly used measures of elder abuse such as Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), and Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS). From reviewing of the strengths and weaknesses of existing measurement instruments, the authors report that although there is some instruments have been developed to identify the victims of abuse, there is still the need to develop more measurements and unlimited instruments since the growth of this issue is remarkable. …show more content…
Furthermore, there are different methodology that uses to estimate and measure elder abuse.
For in stance, estimating and assessing prevalence and correlation of emotional, physical, sexual, and financial abuse of aging adult in a randomly selected national sample in the United States were the purpose and the method that Acierno, Hernandez, and Amstadter (2010) used to address elder abuse. In this study, based on a randomly selected national sample, the authors assess and evaluate the frequency of physical, sexual, psychological, financial mistreatment and neglect of senior adults. They used different methods in order to collect their data, such as computer-assisted, telephone interviewing. Based in analyzing data, it was found that 11.45% of respondents state that a lot of abused happened by a family member for financial, emotional, sexual, and neglect
reasons.
The results of their study show that people who have low social support appear to face the most consistent correlates of mistreatment more than others, which may cause significant public health implications. The other correlation of mistreatment was experience of precious traumatic events that include interpersonal and domestic violence that increases the risk for emotional, sexual, and financial abuse (Acierno et al., 2011). According a study has conducted by Wang et al, which about screening and assessment instruments, it was found that most of the instruments, which used to measure elder mistreatment as Indicators of Abuse Screen, the Elder Assessment Instrument, the Brief Abuse Screen for the Elderly, have not been validated in the primary care setting and they did not find data on the sensitivity and specificity. Although there are different approaches that use to assess and evaluate elder abuse, and identify the signs of abuse in every type, there are still a lot of challenges in using the measurement to assess abuse and whether screening of abuse is accurate and effective or not (Wang et al., 2015).
The second section of this article was about the measures and the instrument that use to assessment elder abuse. The authors discuss the most commonly used measures of elder abuse such as Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), and Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS). From reviewing of the strengths and weaknesses of existing measurement instruments, the authors report that although there is some instruments have been developed to identify the victims of abuse, there is still the need to develop more measurements and unlimited instruments since the growth of this issue is remarkable. …show more content…
Furthermore, there are different methodology that uses to estimate and measure elder abuse.
For in stance, estimating and assessing prevalence and correlation of emotional, physical, sexual, and financial abuse of aging adult in a randomly selected national sample in the United States were the purpose and the method that Acierno, Hernandez, and Amstadter (2010) used to address elder abuse. In this study, based on a randomly selected national sample, the authors assess and evaluate the frequency of physical, sexual, psychological, financial mistreatment and neglect of senior adults. They used different methods in order to collect their data, such as computer-assisted, telephone interviewing. Based in analyzing data, it was found that 11.45% of respondents state that a lot of abused happened by a family member for financial, emotional, sexual, and neglect
reasons.
The results of their study show that people who have low social support appear to face the most consistent correlates of mistreatment more than others, which may cause significant public health implications. The other correlation of mistreatment was experience of precious traumatic events that include interpersonal and domestic violence that increases the risk for emotional, sexual, and financial abuse (Acierno et al., 2011). According a study has conducted by Wang et al, which about screening and assessment instruments, it was found that most of the instruments, which used to measure elder mistreatment as Indicators of Abuse Screen, the Elder Assessment Instrument, the Brief Abuse Screen for the Elderly, have not been validated in the primary care setting and they did not find data on the sensitivity and specificity. Although there are different approaches that use to assess and evaluate elder abuse, and identify the signs of abuse in every type, there are still a lot of challenges in using the measurement to assess abuse and whether screening of abuse is accurate and effective or not (Wang et al., 2015).