title: Elder mistreatment in underserved populations: Opportunities and challenges to developing a contemporary program of research.
abstract: This article provides an overview of the status of research on elder mistreatment among underserved populations in the United States, including gaps in our current knowledge base and scientific and structural barriers to growing research on the exploitation, neglect, and abuse of older people from diverse and disadvantaged ethnic/racial, geographic, sexual identity, and socioeconomic groups. High-priority areas in need of new elder mistreatment research with underserved populations are identified, and suggestions are given for how this research can be facilitated by researchers, university institutional review boards, and funding agencies.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , University of Oklahoma , Norman , Oklahoma , USA.|b Center for Applied Social Research , University of Oklahoma , Norman , Oklahoma , USA.
authors.forename: Lori L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Jervis
authors.affiliation: c Life Paths Appalachian Research Center , Monteagle , Tennessee , USA.|d Department of Psychology , University of the South , Sewanee , Tennessee , USA.
authors.forename: Sherry
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hamby
authors.affiliation: e University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) , University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA.
authors.forename: Scott R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Beach
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , University of Oklahoma , Norman , Oklahoma , USA.
authors.forename: Mary L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: f Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Maholmes
authors.affiliation: g National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities , National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Dorothy M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Castille
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations
keywords: Elder mistreatment; ethnic/racial minorities; poverty; rural; underserved