Elder Justice and Nursing Home Reforms 2020

Police informed of nursing home elder abuse fears.

A nursing home run by a primary care trust (PCT) has been reported to the police over fears that residents were being ill treated by staff.

Elder justice: Preventing and intervening in elder mistreatment.

In the United States, as many as 1 in 10 older adults and 47% of persons with dementia living at home experience some form of mistreatment (IOM, 2013). Elder mistreatment results in diminished well-being and quality of life, and violates the rights of older adults to be safe and free from violence. Elder mistreatment can occur anywhere--in the home, in care and residential facilities and in the...

The Criminal Justice Response to Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes: A Routine Activities Perspective

Politicians and researchers have begun to pay more attention to elder abuse in recent times. Most of the research on elder abuse has focused on cases of abuse perpetrated by family members, treating the phenomenon as a social problem, but it is increasingly being conceptualized as a crime problem. The current study examines elder abuse in nursing homes from a criminological perspective. Using r...

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN LONG-TERM CARE Elder Mistreatment in the Nursing Home: A Systematic Review

Although estimates of the prevalence and incidence of elder mistreatment vary widely, it is likely that at least 3% to 4% of Americans 65 years or older have suffered some form of mistreatment in their later years. 4 Despite having a prevalence that is likely on par with that of child abuse, standardized definitions of elder mistreatment were not published until the early 1990s (see Table 1). R...

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