Risk Factors Associated With Elder Abuse: The Importance of Differentiating by Type of Elder Maltreatment

Jackson, Shelly L.; Hafemeister, Thomas L.

doi:10.1891/0886-6708.26.6.738

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“…Ursachen und Risikofaktoren, die das Auftreten von Gewalt gegenüber Pflegebedürfti-gen begünstigen, sind bekannt. So gelten demenzielle Erkrankungen, störende und aggressive Verhaltensweisen, geistige Behinderungen, fehlende Angehörige und/oder Fürsprecher, Abhängigkeit von Dritten und soziale Isolation als Risikofaktoren auf der Seite der Pflegebedürftigen, wohingegen Überforderung, mangelnde berufliche Qualifikation, eigene Gewalt(opfer)-Biografie, psychische, finanzielle und Suchtprobleme auf der Seite der Pflegekräfte prädisponie-rende Faktoren darstellen [6,11,14]. Weitere Faktoren sind die psychischen und die körperlichen Belastungen der Pflegekräfte sowie die zunehmende Arbeitsverdichtung und Zeitnot infolge von Ökonomisierungsdruck [3,8,10,11].…”

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“…Die Befragten nannten eine Vielzahl an gewaltauslösenden Faktoren, die auch aus bereits oben zitierten Studien bekannt sind [3,14]. Trotz einiger Kenntnisse zum Umgang mit gewaltbegünstigenden Faktoren beklagten die Befragten einen Mangel an Fortbildungsveranstaltungen zum Thema Gewalt, über die nur als singuläre Ereignisse berichtet wurde.…”

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“…Chapter four explores knowledge for and in elder abuse practice in-depth. At this juncture, it is important to note that these debates reinforce Nerenberg's (2008) claim that making sense of the term elder abuse is a complex process that is yet to be resolved and highlights the views of a few scholars who question whether certainty is achievable or in fact, beneficial (Nerenberg, 2008;Jackson & Hafemeister, 2011;Harbison et al, 2012).…”

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“…They do acknowledge however, that harm can be defined in numerous ways that are culturally relative and subjective, and argue therefore, it can be difficult to assess. Nerenberg (2008), Kosberg, Lowenstein, Garcia, and Biggs (2003), Penhale and Parker (2008), Donovan and Regehr (2010) and Jackson and Hafemeister (2011) also canvassed notions of harm in respect of assessment. Nerenberg (2008, p. 29) identified the influence of personal judgments in decisions about harm, suggesting that assessing harm requires "getting inside the heads of abusers to discover motives, beliefs, perceptions, and intentions".…”

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“…From this emerges understandings about prevalence, and the character of, and risk factors for, both victims and abusers (Capezuti, 2011;Jackson & Hafemeister, 2011). Taking a social construction approach does not underestimate the contribution of these studies, but it does offer an opportunity to move beyond statistical data relating to frequency and descriptions about type and characteristics, to capture the complexities of elder abuse practice.…”

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A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Across the past three decades a growing national and international concern about elder abuse is evident in policy, research and social and health care practice. There is currently a considerable body of literature on prevalence, predictors and risk factors as well as debates about definitions, conceptualisations and appropriate legal, policy and practice responses. There is more limited research on how the conceptualisations of ageing and elder abuse shape professional practice. Knowledge use and social work practice in elder abuse in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand is the focus of this thesis.This thesis presents a qualitative exploratory study of elder abuse practice as reported by twenty social workers engaged in frontline elder abuse work throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. The purposive sample of social workers practised in a variety of settings and were situated in different geographic locations across the country. The primary focus of this study is to explore how elder abuse is understood, how cases of In individual semi-structured interviews, participants were asked to describe their understandings of elder abuse, to explore the knowledge they use to inform these understandings, and to give details about what actions they take when encountering situations of abuse.An interpretative, social constructionist approach to this research was taken. All twenty accounts of practice were analysed thematically. This provided a means by which the processes of, and influences on, meaning, knowledge use and response-making could be scrutinised, and an understanding of elder abuse practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand could be discerned.The findings indicate that the term 'elder abuse' is universally recognised and articulated in practice, but when explored in depth, understandings about what constitutes elder abuse varied, were dependent on the knowledge individual social ii | P a g e workers brought to their practice, and on the context in which the practice occurred. This knowledge was not always explicitly used and consequently was often left unscrutinised. The use of tacit knowledge was seen to facilitate the establishment of patterns of practice that have become customary and are left unchallenged.The influence of the context on what could or could not be done to respond to elder abuse was acknowledged by many of these social workers. Beyond the immediate resource constraints that were recognised as limiting their options to address abuse, the significance of the socio-economic-historic-cultural-political context and how this informed and shaped social work practice (and the experiences of older people) were not readily identified by most. When these factors were noted, they were largely considered to be insurmountable.The findings from this study highlight that a narrow approach is taken by most of the social workers in this study when working with older people who are abused. There is little demonstrated understanding the socio/political context in which the abuse occurs, and the systemic issues that may co...

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Interventions for preventing abuse in the elderly

Baker¹,

Francis²,

Hairi³

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Risk Factors Associated With Elder Abuse: The Importance of Differentiating by Type of Elder Maltreatment

Cited by 117 publications

References 11 publications

„Weil wir spüren, da müssen wir was tun“ – Barrieren in der Gewaltprävention sowie zentrale Handlungserfordernisse

„Weil wir spüren, da müssen wir was tun“ – Barrieren in der Gewaltprävention sowie zentrale Handlungserfordernisse

A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Interventions for preventing abuse in the elderly

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