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                            Library & Multimedia
 Theoretical Model Development in Elder Mistreatment
NCJ Number
              234488

Author(s)
          Kerry Burnight, Ph.D.;
                        Laura Mosqueda MD
Date Published

May 2011
Length
              36 pages
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              This research report focuses on developing a theoretical model for elder mistreatment, a relatively new family violence-related issue that lacks empirically-based knowledge and theoretical framework within which to understand its multiple manifestations.
Abstract
              Elder mistreatment inquiry is a relative newcomer to the family violence arena and its empirically-based knowledge lacks a theoretical framework within which to understand its multiple manifestations. Effective intervention and prevention strategies depend upon theory-driven hypotheses testing in order to understand how risk factors at various social-ecological levels interact in the etiology of elder mistreatment. To foster theoretical model development, this article: (1) takes inventory of the empirically-derived knowledge on elder mistreatment; (2) reviews the major theoretical approaches to the etiology of elder mistreatment; (3) proposes a new model of elder mistreatment of older adults with cognitive impairment. Each component of the NIJ-funded work was heavily informed by the methods and models from the adjacent areas of inquiry, child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. Information was obtained through an extensive literature review of the criminal justice, psychology, sociology, gerontology, forensics, and public health literature as well as from interviews with experts from elder mistreatment, child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence.
      
  
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        2005-IJ-CX-0048


  
  
        
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        Bruising as a Forensic Marker of Physical Elder Abuse
    
  
  
Date Published: May 1, 2011
    
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