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3 Risk Factors and Health Outcomes
Pages 18-24

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... Understanding these risk factors and health outcomes could help demonstrate the magnitude of elder abuse and opportunities for prevention. risk factors Identifying and understanding factors that are associated with both predicting and protecting from occurrences of elder abuse is key to determining how to prevent abuse, particularly through primary prevention.
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... Workshop speaker Ron Acierno from the University of South Carolina noted that, while elder mistreatment perpetrated by strangers and caregivers is different, there are risk factors that overlap, and understanding the overlap is important for designing effective interventions. Possible New Approaches to Addressing Elder Mistreatment Risk Factors and Prevention Wallace noted several newer approaches to addressing elder mistreatment risk factors and prevention that have the potential to move the field forward:
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... Potential Areas for Further Research The following section of the report outlines several areas in which further research on specific factors was suggested by workshop speakers. Social Support Several workshop speakers suggested that increasing social support through community integration could help protect vulnerable adults from elder abuse.
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... health outcomes Hall asked, "Why focus on the aftermath of the abuse? " He noted that in assessing the magnitude and effect of elder abuse, the prevalence and incidence data only reveal a small portion of the public health burden of this problem.
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... . Workshop planning committee co-chair and Forum member XinQi Dong from the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging presented an overview of adverse health outcomes of elder abuse.
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... . Elder self-neglect and elder Elder self-neglect reporting is associated with increased risk abuse for subsequent elder abuse reporting to social services agency (Dong et al., 2013)
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... 2013. Elder self-neglect is associated with increased risk for elder abuse in a community-dwelling population: Findings from the Chicago Health and Aging Project.
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