DOI

This study compares abuse rates for elders age 60 and older in three care settings: nursing home, paid home care, and assisted living. The results are based on a 2005 random-digit dial survey of relatives of, or those responsible for, a person in long-term care. Nursing homes have the highest rates of all types of abuse, although paid home care has a relatively high rate of verbal abuse and assisted living has an unexpected high rate of neglect. Even when adjusting for health conditions, care setting is a significant factor in both caretaking and neglect abuses. Moving from paid home care to nursing homes is shown to more than triple the odds of neglect. Furthermore, when computing abuse rates by care setting for persons with specified health conditions, nursing homes no longer have the highest abuse rates.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Страницы (с-по)239-252
Число страниц14
ЖурналJournal of Elder Abuse and Neglect
Том21
Номер выпуска3
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 июл 2009
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    Предметные области Scopus

  • Социальные науки (разное)
  • Гериатрия и геронтология

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