Elder Sexual Abuse

Elder abuse is defined as representing all types of abuse behavior or mistreatment toward an older adult. This includes acts of commission or omission, either intentional or unintentional. Types of abuse include physical, psychological or emotional, or financial abuse or neglect. The mistreatment results in suffering, injury, pain, violation of human rights, and a decreased quality of live. Behaviors are labeled as abusive, neglectful, or exploitative depending on duration, intensity, severity, consequences, frequency, and cultural context. Acts include threatening, humiliating, isolating, abandoning, starving, striking, bur

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as age specific. Most of the crimes being experienced by those younger than age 65 were aggravated or simple assault, burglary, and larceny(78.1%). For the elderly victim, most crimes were robbery, aggravated or simple assault, intimidation, burglary, larceny, and vandalism (87.4%); most were victims of robbery (9.8%), intimidation (7.4%), and vandalism (13.9%). Elderly Whites were twice as often victims of crime, compared to Black elderly. Black elderly were more often victims of violent crimes of assault (30.4%) and intimidation (9.3%) and White elderly were more often victims of property crimes (13.6%), larceny (22.5%), and vandalism (15.2%). Elderly females were less likely to be victims of crime (48.6%) than male elderly (51.4%). Theoretical explanations regarding causes of elder abuse include the following: the situational model, which states that an overburdened caregiver is the cause; exchange theory, with a dependent elder or perpetrator; psychopathology where the perpetrator is mentally disturbed; and social learning theory which includes a childhood of abuse and neglect. Additional theories focus on: individual traits, the feminist theory with an imbalance of power in relationships, and the political economic
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