AIM The aim of this paper is to further develop the construct of Shared Care by comparing and contrasting it to related research, and to show how the construct can be used to guide research and practice. BACKGROUND While researchers have identified negative outcomes for family caregivers caused by providing care, less is known about positive aspects of family care for both members of a family...

BACKGROUND As America's baby boom generation reaches retirement, the number of elders, and, in turn, the number of lay individuals who support them, will continue to increase. With the important services caregivers provide, it is critical that we recognize and provide assistance to the informal caregivers who play this important role in our society. The network of support provisioned by relativ...

BACKGROUND Current knowledge about elder mistreatment is mainly derived from studies done in Western countries, which indicate that this problem is related to risk factors such as a shared living situation, social isolation, disease burden, and caregiver strain. We know little about prevalence and risk factors for elder mistreatment and mistreatment subtypes in rural China where the elder popul...

Elder abuse is understudied and underreported. Elder abuse can take five forms: psychological or emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and financial abuse. Two national studies of the prevalence of elder abuse have recently been conducted. Laumann in a survey of 3005 community residing individuals between ages 57 to 85 interviewed either in person or with a leave-behind questi...

early half a million elders (495,000) living alone in California in 2007 could not make ends meet—lacking sufficient income to pay for a minimum level of housing, food, health care, transportation and other basic expenses, as measured by the Elder Economic Security StandardTM Index (Elder Index). More than one-fourth of Californians age 65 and older lived alone in 2007; among them, half (50.9%)...

This is an important contribution to the growing debate about the practicalities of dealing with elder abuse. As a lawyer and a council member of Action on Elder Abuse, I find it difficult to explain that the law of England and Wales does not recognise any specific concept of Elder Abuse, but that the law nonetheless does provide redress and remedies which it may be appropriate upon occasion to...

Context Elder abuse is a major challenge in contemporary societies. Community based studies indicate a prevalence range between 2% and 18.4% in older people with mental capacity. This figure rises substantially in the older people suffering from dementia. This study by Dong and Simon identifies that older people with suspected or confirmed elder abuse are at a greater risk of hospitalisation, e...

On October 30, 2015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a workshop, "Multiple Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Elder Abuse," in Bethesda, Maryland. The workshop brought together experts from across disciplines to discuss research challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned from other fields. Participants included experts in elder abuse, child abuse, intimate partner v...