Elder Abuse: Policy and Procedure
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Analyses of research, policy, and practice in elder abuse typically begin with caveats about the variations and inconsistencies in how elder abuse is defined, which have obstructed efforts to estimate the prevalence of abuse, understand and measure risk, and craft policy and services. A brief summary of the controversies surrounding definitions is therefore warranted. A panel of researchers and practitioners convened in 2002 by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review and evaluate the research on elder abuse adopted the following definition of elder mistreatment:
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