Elder Abuse
You can help prevent future abuse - Miriam Armanious
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Strengthening Our Intuition About Elder Abuse
There is a blurred line between developing intuition about a disease, which strengthens our clinical acumen, and forming stereotypes for the disease, which can limit us. This is as true for elder abuse as it is for myocardial infarctions. Our experience and the literature indicate that elder abuse is more common in women, but still occurs in men, and that prevalence varies little according to race, ethnicity, formal education, or financial resources. Uncut toenails, poor oral hygiene, uncared-for bedsores, and dirty undergarments should raise concerns but need to be distinguished from signs of poverty, which is not a risk factor.
Resources
Elder Abuse and Neglect: What to do in the Emergency Department
Keep elder abuse or neglect in mind, particularly when you see patients with poor care, malnutrition, or unexplained or suspicious injuries.
Elder Abuse Suspicion Index © (EASI)
All six questions should be queried in the order in which they appear in the EASI. A response of YES on one or more of questions 2-6 should raise concern about mistreatment.
ER workers must learn to spot elder abuse
Currently, most victims of elder abuse and neglect pass through our emergency departments with a life-threatening condition unidentified,
Geriatric Trauma 2
Maintain a high index of suspicion for elder abuse, especially in the elderly trauma patient presenting with unusual injury patterns and inconsistent history.
How to Identify and Intervene in Cases of Elder Abuse
The Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI) is a short screening instrument that is easy to use in the Emergency Department and has been validated for cognitively intact patients in family practice and ambulatory care settings.
How to Recognize Signs of Elder Abuse, Mistreatment
Findings of elder abuse may be subtle and often are not physical injuries.
Identifying Injury Patterns Associated With Physical Elder Abuse: Analysis of Legally Adjudicated Cases
Elder abuse is common and has serious health consequences but is underrecognized by health care providers. An important reason for this is difficulty in distinguishing between elder abuse and unintentional trauma.
Strengthening Our Intuition About Elder Abuse
Of the many vulnerabilities faced by older adults, one of the most serious yet least often recognized is predation or neglect by other people
5 Things You Should Know About Elder Abuse in the ED
It’s a statistical certainty that anyone working in health care has encountered several victims of elder abuse, particularly in the ED. Yet, when is the last time you identified a case of elder abuse? In this post, we present the Top 5 Things You Should Know About Elder Abuse. We hope it will give you the chance to be the one to break the pattern of abuse for the vulnerable patient you are certain to meet on one of your next shifts.
ElderAbuse.org
We are a team dedicated to ending elder abuse in America and beyond. We need your help to get this done. Elderabuse.org has been created to understand, prevent, and treat elder abuse. We do this through research, direct service, public education, and advocating for better laws and policies.
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