title: [Elderly maltreatment: integrative review of the literature].
abstract: The study aimed to identify, through an integrative literature review, scientific knowledge, produced between 2005 and 2009 about the mistreatment of the elderly. It was selected sixteen studies in the data banks LILACS, SciELO and BDENF. Of the sixteen studies, 56.25% comprised original articles. The journal that published the most was the Public Health Journal (25%), being the majority of the studies from the Southeast (56.25%). The survey revealed that the physical violence was prevalent among the elderly; the home was the environment where aggression occurs more frequently; and family members were the main aggressors. Among the elderly attacked, it was observed that women are the victims most affected. These findings raise the development of other researches that might clarify the multiple dimensions of violence against the elderly.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. annelissa_ufpb@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Annelissa Andrade Virgínio de
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Debora Raquel Soares Guedes
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Trigueiro
authors.forename: Maria das Graças Melo
authors.initials: Md
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Antonia Oliveira
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans