Concerned Family Members’ Help-Seeking in Elder Family Financial Exploitation

Family Members and Friends Who Help Beneficiaries Make Health Decisions

People enrolled in Medicare often turn to family members and friends for help in making health decisions, including Medicare health plan choices. To learn how family members and friends participate in decisionmaking, what information they currently use, and what information they would like, we held eight focus groups in San Diego and Baltimore. Although responses were different in the two marke...

Elder abuse and financial exploitation: unlawful and just plain awful!

Elder Financial Exploitation: Implications for Future Policy and Research in Elder Mistreatment

Recent advances in the understanding of elder mistreatment have demonstrated that financial exploitation tends to be one of the most common forms of mistreatment affecting older populations. Agencies such as the World Bank and World Health Organization show significant concern regarding financial exploitation and its connection to physical and emotional injury to victims. The World Bank uses th...

Understanding elder abuse in family practice.

OBJECTIVE To discuss what constitutes elder abuse, why family physicians should be aware of it, what signs and symptoms might suggest mistreatment of older adults, how the Elder Abuse Suspicion Index might help in identification of abuse, and what options exist for responding to suspicions of abuse. SOURCES OF INFORMATION MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Social Work Abstracts were searched for publicat...

Physician-elder interaction in community family practice.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether outpatient visits by elders seeing community family physicians differ in length or content from visits by younger patients; socioemotional preferences predict visit content; and satisfaction correlates with visit content differentially across age. METHODS In a multimethod cross-sectional study of 84 community family practices in northeastern Ohio, 3453 adult pat...