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Global Prevalence of Elder Abuse in the Community

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Evidence suggests that abuse and mistreatment of community-residing older adults is commonplace around the world, although estimates vary wildly across regions, cultures, and sociopolitical situations. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight efforts across the globe to explore the prevalence of elder abuse. In particular, we focus on recent work from the United States and Canada, Europe, Israel, and Asia and the Western Pacific. This chapter also addresses methodological issues in assessing elder abuse that may contribute to different prevalence estimates across studies and regions, and underscores the importance of establishing expert consensus guidelines in defining specific acts of abuse to allow for greater comparison of findings across studies.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Missouri—Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA

    Joah L. Williams

  2. Department of Psychiatry, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System/University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Margaret Davis

  3. College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, 99 Jonathan Lucas Street, MSC 160, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA

    Ron Acierno

  4. Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA

    Ron Acierno

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Williams, J.L., Davis, M., Acierno, R. (2017). Global Prevalence of Elder Abuse in the Community. In: Dong, X. (eds) Elder Abuse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47504-2_3

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