Moving from Elder Friendly to Elder Essential: A Global Mandate

“ Global response against elder abuse ” Report from Sweden

Elder-friendly emergency services in Brazil: necessary conditions for care.

OBJECTIVE To identify and analyze the aspects necessary to provide an elder-friendly emergency service (ES) from the perspective of nurses. METHOD This is a descriptive, quantitative study using the Delphi technique in three rounds. Nurses with professional experience in the ES and/or researchers with publications and/or conducting research in the study area were selected. The first round of ...

Elder-friendly Designʼs Effects on Acceptance of Novel Technologies

In this paper we describe the effect elder-friendly design had on elder acceptance of a technology designed to enhance online security. This elder-friendly alternative interface was developed for an anti-phishing toolbar that was previously found usable by students but rejected as unfathomable by elders. We recruited five elders to use both the toolbar instantiation and the elder-friendly inter...

Elder abuse.

BACKGROUND Elder abuse is a common and yet often unrecognised problem in our community. With up to 5% of the community dwelling older population being victims of abuse, the general practitioner has a pivotal role in identifying this abuse. OBJECTIVE This article provides an outline of the definition of elder abuse, describes the types of abuse seen and the reasons for occurrence of abuse. It ...

Elder Abuse.

The following excerpt is from our Elder Abuse tutorial on the ANMF's Aged Care Training Room (ACTR). Subtopics covered include defining elder abuse, legalities, contributing factors, indicators of elder abuse, organisational issues, characteristics of the abused resident/client and their abuser, worker characteristics, prevention and compulsory reporting to name but a few.