DISRUPTED SOCIAL LIFE MEDIATES ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PANDEMIC WORRIES AND RISK OF ELDER ABUSE
Louis To, Lok Man Leung, Debby Wan, Ronald Tsui, Elsie Yan · 2023
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Worry about the pandemic and the loneliness it imposed may have raised the risk of elder abuse, and Louis To and co-authors test that chain in a 2023 survey. More than a thousand older adults living at home took part. One in five respondents fell into the at-risk range on a standard screening scale, most often through family conflict at home.
Abuse risk ran higher for those not in a marriage, those in larger households, the worried, and the socially disrupted. Statistical modeling showed the disruption carried part of worry's effect: fear frayed social life, and frayed social life raised risk. The authors argue protecting older people's social ties is abuse prevention.
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| CREATOR | Louis To, Lok Man Leung, Debby Wan, Ronald Tsui, Elsie Yan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |