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Care of Elderly Patients

There are indications that demographic factors distinguish between groups providing care to elderly patient populations. For example, Baltz and Turner (1977) observed that successful Nursing Home caregivers (nursing home aides) significantly differed from unsuccessful Nursing Home caregivers on the demographic factors of age, whether aides had training in health care (yes or no) and years of experience working with the elderly. The finding that amount of training and length of experience with the elderly contributed to a greater degree of success in work with the elderly, supports the notion that education is a pivotal component of caring for the elderly; a notion that has long been advocated in the geriatric nursing literature (e.g. Barrett & Metz, 1981; Mezey & Lynaugh, 1991; Volinn, 1982).

What is to be noted regarding the literature on the importance of training and education given to caregivers working with the elderly is that, for the most part, it focuses on the provision of adequate medical procedure and methods; that is, the research does not cover psychosocial behaviors such as abusive interaction. Indeed, Pillemer and Moore (1989) noted that in the geriatric nursing literature in general, there has been a paucity of research examining abuse and maltreatment of elderly patients on the part of caregiver staff and personnel.

When one considers that the "greying" of the baby boom generation and the longer lifespans brought about by improvement in medicines, it can be seen that providing care to the elderly is going to be an ever increasing part of modern-day health care services. This means that the need for research examining factors contributive to elderly abuse on the part of caregivers is imperative. This study meets this research need by expanding the literature on caregiver training and education by examining whether these variables are associated with abusive behavior toward the elderly.

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