Violence against older adults in Portugal: findings from the first national prevalence study (original) (raw)
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ABSTRACTSexual violence (SV) is an important public health issue with a potential major impact on victims and their peers, offspring and community. However, SV in older adults is under-researched. This paper aims to establish the prevalence and nature of SV in older adults in Europe, link this with existing policies and health care workers’ response to sexual health needs in older age and critically revise the current used frameworks in public health research.We applied a Critical Interpretative Synthesis. After the first phase of purposive sampling we included 14 references. Another 14 references were included after the second phase of theoretical sampling. We ultimately included 16 peer-reviewed articles and 12 documents from the grey literature.0.0% to 3.1% of older adults in Europe were sexually victimised in the past year. Lifetime prevalence of SV was 6.3%. Information on specific risk factors and assailants committing SV in old age is non- existing. Although in theory policy ...
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European report on preventing elder maltreatment. WHO
Elder maltreatment is pervasive in all countries in the WHO European Region, and estimates suggest that at least 4 million people in the Region experience elder maltreatment in any one year. Most countries in the Region have an ageing population, and one third of the population is forecast to be 60 years and older in 2050, putting more people at risk of elder maltreatment. Elder maltreatment has far-reaching consequences for the mental and physical well-being of tens of millions of older people, and if left unchecked will result in their premature death. Estimates suggest that about 2500 older people may lose their lives annually from elder maltreatment. The report highlights the numerous biological, social, cultural, economic and environmental factors that interact to influence the risk and protective factors of being a victim or perpetrator of elder maltreatment. There is some evidence of effectiveness, and examples include psychological programmes for perpetrators and programmes designed to change attitudes towards older people, improve the mental health of caregivers and, in earlier life, to promote nurturing relationships and social skills learning. The evidence base needs to be strengthened, but much can be done by implementing interventions using an evaluative framework. Prevention and social justice for older people can only be achieved by mainstreaming this response into health and social policy. Surveys show that the public and policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the problem, and the policy response needs to be strengthened to meet this demand. Keywords ELDER ABUSE -prevention and control AGGRESSION INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS AGED EUROPE ISBN 978 92 890 0237 0 Address requests about publications of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to: Publications WHO Regional Office for Europe Scherfigsvej 8 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Doctors’ competences in caring for older people in situations of violence: scope review
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Objective: describing by means of the evidence in the literature, the competences of doctors in hospital services in situations of violence against older people (VAOP). Method: scope review with search in databases/platforms/searchers and grey literature covering Medline; VHL; Embase; CINAHL; Web of Science; BDTD, OpenGrey, OpenThesis, RCAAP, Portal de Teses e Dissertações da CAPES, DART-Europe E-theses Portal and Theses Canada Portal (Aurora and Voilà catalogs). The descriptors and keywords used, combined with the Boolean operators OR, AND, NOT were: “Physicians”, “Doctors”, “Attitude”, “Attitude”, “Knowledge”, “Knowledge”, “Behavior”, “Medical Care”, “Medical Care”, “Medical Care”, “Hospital Services”, “Hospital Services”, “Hospital”, “Hospitalists”, “Hospital Doctors”, “Older People Abuse”, “Older People Abuse”, “Physical Abuse”, “Older People Neglect ”, “Aged Abuse”, “Older People Mistreatment”. Results: six papers were selected. There was a lack of knowledge on the topic and th...