title: The use of health legislation to deal with abuse of community based elderly people with dementia.
abstract: This paper describes current health legislation used to deal with actual and potential abuse of elderly people with dementia living in the community. Recent recommendations made regarding updating existing legal processes and creating new provisions are also outlined.
authors.affiliation: Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cooney
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Hamid
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services; D003704:Dementia; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom