Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic Had No Discernable Impact on Risk of Elder Abuse and Neglect Among Dementia Family Caregivers: A Daily Diary Study
Autor: | Carolyn E Z, Pickering, Christopher D, Maxwell, Maria, Yefimova, Danny, Wang, Frank, Puga, Tami, Sullivan |
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Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Family Violence. |
ISSN: | 1573-2851 0885-7482 |
Popis: | There is widespread concern that elder abuse and neglect (EAN) incidents increased during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic due in part to increases in risk factors. Initial reports relying on administrative systems such as adult protective services records produced mixed results regarding whether or not there was a change in EAN incidents. Using data from an ongoing longitudinal study on EAN in dementia family caregiving that started before the pandemic, we assessed the hypothesis that the pandemic is related to a change in probability of EAN and EAN protective factors. Family caregivers to persons with dementia completed two waves of 21 daily diaries, 6-months apart, assessing their daily use of EAN behaviors. The first group (The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10896-022-00392-8. |
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