The hidden health menace of elder abuse. Physicians can help patients surmount intimate partner violence.
As many as 2 million elderly persons in the United States experience physical, psychologic, or sexual abuse each year. Nationally spouses or intimate partners commit between 13% and 50% of elder abuse.1 Physicians can be instrumental in preventing and intervening in intimate partner violence in their elderly patients.
Fisher
Joslyn Weiner
JW
Dyer
Carmel Bitondo
CB
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