The perspectives of older care recipients, their family members, and their round-the-clock foreign home care workers regarding elder mistreatment.
OBJECTIVE
This study evaluated attitudes toward elder mistreatment from the perspective of older care recipients; their foreign home care workers, and their family members.


METHODS
Overall, 88 older care recipients, 142 family members, and 127 foreign home care workers responded to a hypothetical case vignette querying about the appropriate care of an older woman who suffers from neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia.


RESULTS
Foreign home care workers tended to be more lenient toward elder mistreatment relative to older adults and their family members and to view as effective techniques that would non-equivocally be considered abusive and ineffective by current standards.


CONCLUSIONS
Interventions should inform these stakeholders about what constitutes elder mistreatment and should be particularly geared toward addressing cultural differences in the perception of elder mistreatment.
Ayalon
Liat
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The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. ayalonl@mail.blu.ac.il
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003704:Dementia; D004552:Elder Abuse; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D018576:Home Health Aides; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055815:Young Adult