Factors that influence abusive interactions between aging women and their caregivers.
Research findings suggest that one or more factors-personality and/or drug or financial dependency, cognitive and personality impairments, contextual factors, or severe stress-render elders vulnerable to caregiver maltreatment (i.e., either abuse or neglect), but may also make them more prone to abusing their caregivers. However, it is often the interaction between elders and caregivers that determines whether maltreatment will actually occur. Maltreatment of elders is less likely when caregivers (1) are free of mental impairments and of drug and personality dependency, (2) are trained to cope with the stress of caregiving and of highly provocative and/or abusive elders, (3) and are adequately reimbursed and socially supported.
Nadien
Margot B
MB
Psychology Department, Fordham University, 113 West 60th St., Rm 913D, New York, NY 10023, USA. nadien@fordham.edu
D000368:Aged; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health