A STUDY COMPARING TRENDS IN NUMBER OF AND CONTENT IN ARTICLES ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ELDER ABUSE IN JAPAN

Autor: Asako Katsumata, Noriko Tsukada
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Innovation in Aging. 6:660-660
ISSN: 2399-5300
DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igac059.2436
Popis: Since enactment in 2000, Japan’s Domestic Violence (DV) Law has been amended four times. No amendments have been made to Japan’s Elder Abuse Prevention Law, despite awareness of its imperfections. This study examined trends in the number of journal articles, and titles by content of those articles, using a KJ Method, to determine how the research literature has informed DV law, and to identify gaps in knowledge and further research needs related to elder abuse that could inform policy change. Using the CiNii database, in 2005-2021, we found1020 elder abuse articles (average 60 articles/year), and in 2001-2021, 836 DV articles (average 40 articles/year). Preliminary analyses revealed the per year annual average has been decreasing for each. Although the most used term was similar in both DV and elder abuse articles, which was “responses of professional personnel,” 15.4% for elder abuse and 13.4% for DV, title terms differed, with titles of elder abuse articles are more likely to be related to caregiving, such as “support for caregiver” (who are actually abusers) (4.7%) and “dementia” (3.6%), while terms found in DV but not in elder abuse articles included “supports for victims” (7.1%) and “responses to abusers” (5.3%). Our findings indicate that more research on supporting victims of elder abuse may be imperative to inform lder abuse law changes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE