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... Statements, recommendations, and opinions expressed are those of individual presenters and participants and are not necessarily endorsed or verified by the Forum on Global Violence Prevention, the Institute of Medicine, or the National Research Council, and they should not be construed as reflecting any group consensus.
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... As the world population of adults aged 65 and older continues to grow, the implica tions of elder maltreatment for health care, social welfare, justice, and financial systems are great. However, despite the magnitude of global elder maltreatment, it has been an underappreciated public health problem.
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... definitions and Context Within the field of elder abuse, different terms are used to define the parameters of violence, abuse, neglect, self-neglect, and exploitation of the elderly as described within specific context. For example, the 2003 National Research Council report Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America defined elder mistreatment "as (a)
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... organization of the report This report provides a summary account of the presentations given at the workshop and expert papers submitted by workshop speakers. Opinions expressed within this summary are not those of the IOM, the Forum on Global Violence Prevention, or their agents, but rather of the presenters themselves.
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... 2008. A global response to elder abuse and neglect: Building primary health care capacity to deal with the problem worldwide: Main report.
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