TY - JOUR
T1 - Elder abuse in nursing homes
T2 - An ecological perspective
AU - Schiamberg, Lawrence B.
AU - Barboza, Gia G.
AU - Oehmke, James
AU - Zhang, Zhenmei
AU - Griffore, Robert J.
AU - Weatherill, Robin P.
AU - von Heydrich, Levente
AU - Post, Lori A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Work for this was supported by a grant from the Centers for Medicaid/Medicare Service # CFDA 93.778 to Michigan State University. The authors wish to thank Christopher Belous, graduate research assistant, for his assistance with the bibliography.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Projected increases in the elderly population are expected to significantly increase the stress on family and professional caretakers. Stress, in the context of caregiving relationships, is a risk factor associated with increased prevalence of elder abuse in familial and institutional settings. As increasing numbers of older adults are moved from family caregiving to nursing home care settings, it becomes important to identify the pattern of elder abuse risk factors in nursing home facilities. An ecological model is proposed for better understanding the risk factors associated with elder abuse in nursing homes and the complex interaction of individual/person characteristics and contextual factors in institutional elder abuse. An ecological perspective to institutional elder abuse provides a framework for guiding and informing future research on the risk factors of nursing home abuse and, in turn, for the development of effective interventions and relevant social policies.
AB - Projected increases in the elderly population are expected to significantly increase the stress on family and professional caretakers. Stress, in the context of caregiving relationships, is a risk factor associated with increased prevalence of elder abuse in familial and institutional settings. As increasing numbers of older adults are moved from family caregiving to nursing home care settings, it becomes important to identify the pattern of elder abuse risk factors in nursing home facilities. An ecological model is proposed for better understanding the risk factors associated with elder abuse in nursing homes and the complex interaction of individual/person characteristics and contextual factors in institutional elder abuse. An ecological perspective to institutional elder abuse provides a framework for guiding and informing future research on the risk factors of nursing home abuse and, in turn, for the development of effective interventions and relevant social policies.
KW - Ecological perspective
KW - Elder abuse
KW - Nursing homes
KW - Risk factors
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U2 - 10.1080/08946566.2011.558798
DO - 10.1080/08946566.2011.558798
M3 - Article
C2 - 21462050
AN - SCOPUS:79953747475
SN - 0894-6566
VL - 23
SP - 190
EP - 211
JO - Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect
JF - Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect
IS - 2
ER -