title: Health professionals' and students' perceptions of elder abuse.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to compare perceptions about elder abuse among health professionals and students in the same health disciplines.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Caregiving Scenario Questionnaire (CSQ) was disseminated to Australian health professionals from two metropolitan health services and to university health care students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred and twenty health professionals and 127 students returned surveys. Significantly more students than health professionals identified locking someone in the house alone all day and restraining someone in a chair as abusive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need for further definition clarification and education about detection and management of elder abuse for health students and professionals in Australia. Student education should include consideration of the real-life situations likely to be encountered in practice. Education for both students and health professionals should include strategies for carers to manage difficult situations such as the one described in the CSQ.
authors.affiliation: National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. b.dow@nari.unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Briony
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dow
authors.forename: Courtney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hempton
authors.forename: Emanuel N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Cortes-Simonet
authors.forename: Kathryn A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.forename: Susan H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Logiudice
authors.forename: Maree
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mastwyk
authors.forename: Gill
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Livingston
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ames
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004552:Elder Abuse; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception; D013336:Students, Health Occupations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires