title: Response to Acierno's comments on Wong and Waite, "Elder mistreatment predicts later physical and psychological health: Results from a national longitudinal study".
abstract: We respond to Dr. Acierno's concerns about the measurement of elder mistreatment and social support in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. We made our analytic decisions carefully and conducted systematic robustness checks and believe our findings are theoretically important.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Sociology , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois , USA.|b NORC at the University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois , USA.
authors.forename: Jaclyn S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: a Department of Sociology , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois , USA.|b NORC at the University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois , USA.
authors.forename: Linda J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Waite
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004552:Elder Abuse; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008603:Mental Health; D010808:Physical Examination; D012944:Social Support
keywords: Commentary; measurement; social support