Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Preventing growth in abuse of the elderly
Other Titles:	Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
Authors:	McCallum, John Parsons, Jeanine
Keywords:	Older people
Year:	2002
Publisher:	Public Health Association of Australia
Citation:	26 (5), October 2002
Notes:	In an article which seeks to comment on the WHO World Report on Violence and Health and put it into an Australian context, McCallum and Parsons refer to the report but find that it does not describe the Australian situation in any depth. The WHO report includes a chapter on violence and neglect of older people in their homes or in institutional settings. It examines the extent of the problem in various parts of the world, its causes and consequences, and the control measures that have been tried. McCallum and Parsons use Australian research to expand on these points as they apply to elder abuse in this country. They discuss the two schools of thought prevalent as to how the problem may be defined and look at the emergence of the problem in the 1990s as a social and political issue. Details of the two competing intervention models are given: the mainstream model and a specialist, central agency model. They also discuss the costing of elder abuse and conclude that while more data is needed to determine the cost and effectiveness of different interventions the best solution is to approach the problem from a public health perspective and to use both formal and informal support services to deal with it. With an increasing percentage of the population falling into the definition of “elderly” the government needs an established policy to prevent the problem worsening.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16317
ISSN:	1326-0200
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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