In 1995 was celebrated the first consensus conference of abuse in the elderly population. In this consensus, abuse was defined as 'any act, or omission, that causes damage (intentional or not) practiced on people with 65 years or older, that can appear: in family, community or institutional environment, that can harm or endanger the physical and/or mental state, and the principle of autonomy or other fundamental rights of the individual, subjectively perceived or objectively verifiable. There are different types of abuse: physical, sexual, emotional or psychological, abandonment, neglect and financial.The abuse in the elderly is a little known phenomenon at all levels (legal, medical, social), it is very important to learn about it and be able to identify the characteristics (signs of abuse, vulnerabilities of victims ...) in our work place to protect themWe are going to talk (with two clinical cases) about one of the most unknown kind of financial abuse: the undue influence. It is a legal concept in which, the dominant part (through various tactics: adulation, insistence, deceit... and with a relationship of trust) takes advantage of its influence for economic purposes. The undue influence does not occur in a single act, it consists in a pattern of behaviors, a process of manipulation etc...An effective assessment can prevent needless emotional and financial losses of the victims and help them maintain their autonomy.

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo evaluar si existen manifestaciones de racismo implícito en un grupo de estudiantes del Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo —INTEC—, analizando si hay diferencias según su sexo, religiosidad, identidad política y clase social. Es de gran importancia porque concientiza sobre este fenómeno difícil de identificar, pero muy perjudicial para el estudiantado y la sociedad. Es de enfoque cuantitativo, alcance descriptivo y diseño no experimental transeccional. Se contó con una muestra de 70 estudiantes del INTEC —seleccionada por muestreo no probabilístico— de distintos sexos, clases sociales, niveles de religiosidad e identidades políticas. El instrumento utilizado fue el Test de asociación implícita, elaborado por Greenwald y Banaji en 1998. Los resultados indican que sí se presentó racismo implícito, principalmente en distintos grados de preferencia automática hacia personas blancas sobre negras, sin diferencias significativas según el sexo, la religiosidad, la identidad política, ni la clase social de este grupo de estudiantes.