providing old-age care and support,
making elderly people vulnerable to ill-treatment and
abuse by carers and society as a whole.
In their Seminar on elder abuse, Mark Lachs and Karl
Pillemer look at prevalence, definitions, the evidence for
major risk factors and intervention strategies, and give
physicians a framework for how best to deal with
suspected maltreatment of elderly people. Elder abuse
has only recently been made a public issue, 30 years
after child abuse began to be tackled. Generally…
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